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

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

The contingents provided by the New Orleans Police Department and Louisiana State Police will be supplemented with officers, agents and deputies from the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, Harbor Police ...

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

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

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 ...

In the decades since the levee system disconnected the swamp from ... Cullen Jones, commander for the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans district, said the collaboration set an example for ...

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 ...

Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi ... The 456 square kilometers of Maurepas Swamp just to the west of New Orleans holds Louisiana's second-largest ...

St. Paul’s is located in New Orleans’s Lakeview neighborhood less than two miles south of Lake Pontchartrain. In August 2005, during Hurricane Katrina, lake water from the 17th Street Canal breached a ...