The parish fell behind on its audits starting in 2022 and earlier this year lost its top-notch bond rating from two major ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng said raising firefighters’ pay would cost the parish millions of dollars, pointing to a state law that requires proportional increases ...

Ahead of a meeting with Louisiana National Guard leaders and Gov. Jeff Landry, New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick didn't shy away from questions about the deployment of ...

A long-simmering dispute over firefighter wages on the East Bank of Jefferson Parish is reaching a boiling point, with the firefighters' union accusing the parish administration of deliberately ...

GRETNA, La. (WGNO) — Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng and other officials held a hurricane preparedness news conference at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, at the Emergency Operations Center.

As President Donald Trump considers an overhaul of the nation’s disaster response efforts, one Louisiana official is poised to have an influential voice in the debate over potential reforms. Jefferson ...

Union leaders say they may call for Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng’s resignation and that a strike remains on the table.

BATON ROUGE, La. — With hurricane season just weeks away, FEMA is facing another leadership change—and it’s raising alarms among Louisiana officials who rely on the agency when disaster strikes. In ...

Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng was frantic. It was the end of January and Lee Sheng, a Republican, was in Washington, chairing a task force on federal disaster funding, when the White ...