The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns date back to Biden’s term, when ...

But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane protection system – a network of surge barriers, floodwalls and bolstered levees erected after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – mostly did ...

While it’s been a quiet hurricane season thus far, New Orleans residents are always anxious about the state of hurricane ...

After the failure of levees and floodwalls during Hurricane Katrina sank the New Orleans area in 2005, killing 1,833 people, Congress gave the Corps of Engineers $14.6 billion to bolster ...

In a nutshell New Orleans’ $15 billion flood protection system is sinking up to 28 millimeters per year—nearly 10 times faster than sea level rise The Louis Armstrong International Airport area shows ...

After Katrina, the federal government spent $14.5 billion on projects designed to enhance protection from storm surge and flooding in New Orleans and surrounding suburbs south of Lake Pontchartrain.

Saturday, New Orleans residents will observe the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that unleashed deadly floods throughout the city in 2005 after man-made levees and flood walls failed.

In Ida’s case, the pre-existing trend that may reshape New Orleans is that the hurricane arrived 18 months into a pandemic that has ravaged the city’s tourist-based economy and driven its ...

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has more than 140 projects in the works to try to reduce the risks to New Orleans from the next hurricane. As hurricane protection goes, so goes New Orleans' future - CNET ...

The mayor of New Orleans on Friday night warned residents to “hunker down” ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Ida — which is threatening to slam the city as a dangerous Category 4 storm ...

Hurricane Ida peeled roofs off homes, flooded some communities and knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana.. But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane ...

New Orleans Levees Passed Hurricane Ida's Test, But Some Suburbs Flooded. August 31, 2021 10:45 AM ET. By . The Associated Press Enlarge this image ...