Dustin Amos, right, walks near debris at a gas station on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Lake Charles, La., after Hurricane Laura moved through the state.

The Atlantic hurricane season has been a record-breaker. Laura is the earliest L-named storm in the Atlantic Basin, breaking a record held by Luis, which formed Aug. 29, 1995.

Hurricane Laura, one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the United States, weakened from a Category 4 status to a Category 2 storm early Thursday as it pounded Louisiana and Texas, leaving a ...

Hurricane Laura weakened to a tropical depression in Arkansas Thursday evening after paving a path of destruction throughout Louisiana, with at least four deaths blamed on the storm.Louisiana Gov ...

The National Weather Service reported that Laura’s strength has grown "rapidly" Wednesday and that the hurricane's maximum sustained winds could reach 150 mph at landfall.

Hurricane Laura damaged the South Defender’s Monument, a Confederate monument in the Calcasieu Parish that sits on the Calcasieu Courthouse lawn in Lake Charles, La., on Aug. 27.

If Laura makes landfall with sustained winds of at least 111 mph, it will become only the fourth major hurricane to make landfall on the U.S. mainland in the past 15 years, joining Hurricane ...

The path for the center of Laura shifted about 20-30 miles east, back into far Southwest Louisiana for a potential landfall shortly after midnight Thursday. Still, impacts are expected to be felt ...

Storms of Laura’s strength can severely damage buildings and homes, down power lines and snap or uproot most trees, according to the National Hurricane Center. On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott ...

As Hurricane Laura barrels down on Texas and Louisiana with life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rains, Massachusetts meteorologists on Tuesday said it was still “much to… ...

Laura’s unwelcome arrival comes just days before the Aug. 29 anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which breached the levees in New Orleans, flattened much of the Mississippi coast and killed as ...

Hurricane Laura's devastation means 'Lake Charles won't be the same' Minton and her family had been building a new home in Lake Charles that was months away from completion.