Within a few years slaves are put to work clearing land ... A breach in the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi 18 miles above New Orleans does an "immense amount of damage," they write ...

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 ...

Standing on the Mississippi River levee with both spans of the Crescent ... mind-blowing color schemes to show what the new $23 million lighting system can do. “There was nothing cookie-cutter ...

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

(WVUE) - Motorists taking the I-10 or I-55 in the LaPlace area might catch a glimpse of a $3.8 billion levee under construction. The West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project -- an 18½-mile system of ...

(AP) — 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 ...

(AP) — 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 ...