In 2007, The Daily Star changed from being an afternoon newspaper to publishing in the morning, thereby within its three-parish circulation area competing head-to-head with The Advocate (Baton Rouge) and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans).
The Daily Star has held its own by nuancing to this competitive environment in Louisiana's fastest-growing region.
In the meantime, even on that Tuesday as during the preceding weekend, the Star staff was at work and, with the public power outage, used generators and laptop computers to maintain the newspaper's web site; issues for August 31 and September 1 and 2 were printed in Denham Springs.
With just one day of interrupted publication on paper, the Star published accounts of the hurricane and its aftermath, including controversies related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
A major feature of The Daily Star is its letters to the editor, which are often vigorous about local or state issues and provide unique grassroots commentary.