The project will reunite one of the largest forested wetlands in the nation with the Mississippi River more than 80 years ...

Laitrim CEO Jay Lapeyre, who oversaw selection of post-Katrina east and west bank levee authority board members, has resigned ...

15. The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 feet above sea level, the walls failed with a maximum surge of ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has begun asserting control over a key New Orleans area levee authority by naming a new leader and the state attorney general has opened an investigation into the body for ...

The NOPD says they believe this was a targeted attack; however, the fact that it occurred in such a public space in broad daylight has upset many who pass by this spot frequently.

By 1726, the levee remains incomplete, though a section fully 18 feet tall stands before the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square) in the heart of the nascent town. After New Orleans floods in 1731 ...

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures forced us to rebuild ... For decades, the New Orleans economy and population had been steadily declining. As the oil industry moved away and ...

Parts of Louisiana and Mississippi have been left devastated by Hurricane Ida, which flooded communities, knocked out power lines and littered roads with debris. Satellite images taken by Maxar on ...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. (WGNO) — The New Orleans District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract for levee construction and pipeline work along the ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...