Stretching back at least a century, bonfires have been built on the levees in St. James and St. John the Baptist parishes for ...

Jay Lapeyre, Jr., the New Orleans civic and business leader who as nominating committee chairperson single-handedly reshaped the region's two biggest levee authority boards following post ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Dozens of towering bonfire structures are ... It may be deer hunting season, but a wooden, 10-point ...

What was left of Roux-Dolph the White-Tailed Deer, the creation of the group “Blood, Sweat, and Bonfires,” was still smoking on Christmas morning. Littered throughout the massive pile of ash were ...

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — The bonfires on the levee through St. James and St. John are nearly complete. In a few days, they will be lit at 7 p.m. to light the way for Papa Noel. The tradition ...

(AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and ... The 176 square mile (456 ...