All eyes are on New Orleans' infrastructure ... the Mississippi River has been rebuilt and reinforced to withstand wind speeds of up to 175mph. All levees, flood walls, floodgates and surge ...

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 ...

Sailed, steamer Oriental, for Boston. The Board of Levee Commissioners Lave issued proposals to build 1,200,000 feet of levee. Gen. ORTEGA, who has been here for sense days, left this evening per ...

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures forced us to rebuild from the ground up ... For decades, the New Orleans economy and population had been steadily declining.

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

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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 ...

Harris estimated the sisters had more than 200 students in 1912, when the New Orleans Levee Board decided to strengthen the levees and rebuild a crumbling river bank. The Ursulines donated some ...

never to be rebuilt. A look at the new hydraulic pipes that have been built at 17th Street to protect New Orleans residents from another disaster. Believe it or not, Levee district officials are ...