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

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

State and federal authorities in Louisiana celebrated breaking ground on an ambitious $330 million conservation project ...

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

The $330 million Maurepas Swamp Project will divert up to 2,000 cubic feet per second of river water into the wetlands, providing oxygen, nutrients and fresh water. Officials said it will revitalize ...

Reconnecting the dying swamp to fresh river water is vital for the health of the swamp’s cypress-tupelo forest, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A man who has been convicted ... reported that Henderson attacked a woman who was jogging on the levee in Algiers Point in 2016 and attacked and raped another woman who ...

Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative announced a new insurance pilot, with hopes of better helping river towns ...

NEW ORLEANS — A man convicted of crimes the Orleans ... In 2016 a woman was jogging along the levee in Algiers. She said in court Monday that she usually ran with her husband, but that one ...