Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans ... MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pursuing a plan to replace the 100-year-old lock that connects the Mississippi River to ...

All eyes are on New Orleans' infrastructure as another hurricane season begins — especially the power grid, drains and levees. Why it matters: Leaders say storm-related power outages will be the ...

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-Hurricane Katrina ...

Hurricane Helene is its own disaster, but New Orleans knows its blueprint ... many of these images before. Hurricane Katrina ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passenger rail’s return, big changes on the sports scene and a significant storm anniversary will be among the biggest South ...

While Katrina was 10 years ago, it's still the model for what could happen because the factors that made the storm so devastating are getting worse — sea levels are rising and as global ...

He has lived in New Orleans for 15 years ... developed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The most impressive aspect of the master plan is not its advertised $50 billion cost (likely a ...