The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and City Hall are on the cusp of something they’ve long said is necessary but ...

closes out the speaks for the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System completion event at the IHNC-Lake Borgne Surge Barrier in New Orleans, Friday, May 27, 2022. The levee authority now ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New ... over the levee system in the northern arm of the Industrial Canal flood Orleans East.

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 ...

Another flood the following year convinces the federal government to grant monies to build a continuous levee system ... south of New Orleans, killing 1,500 people. New Orleans is now the 14th ...

residents have raised concerns around a projected increase in flood risk outside of the levee system. Residents also ...

The New Orleans Fire Department is investigating a fire at a Marigny area senior living facility that left several residents displaced.

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi ... Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second largest contiguous forest, a beloved state ...

“But now this makes me question ... the plan is called “Living With Water.” New Orleans’s own office for emergency preparedness acknowledges that its pumping system is overmatched by ...

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 ...