One of south Louisiana’s largest and most expensive levee systems achieved an important milestone on Wednesday with the start of a second phase of construction of the Houma Navigation Canal Lock ...

Hurricane Francine provided a good test of the abilities of the east and west bank levee authorities in the New Orleans area to close hundreds of gates in advance of its surge, officials for both said ...

It’s Thursday, and time for our Week in Politics with the Times Picayune’s/The Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today, we discuss President Trump’s proposal to send the ...

I'm Travis Mackel. 20 years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit, the bulk of the damage done when 3 major levee systems all failed. The industrial canal levee failed. The London Avenue Canal levee failed, ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gathering information for the Morganza to the Gulf Project and is seeking public input. The Corps held a town hall at the Houma Civic Center Monday, Aug. 5, to ...

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-Hurricane ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.