Kelli Chandler will officially step down from her position leading the South Louisiana Flood Protection Authority–East on Jan ...

Early in the morning surge waters cresting over the levee system in the northern arm of ... a strait northeast of New Orleans that connects Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne, the winds along the ...

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 ...

Tammany plan. Also included are a study on limiting storm surge in the nine parishes that border Lake Pontchartrain, a $50 ...

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 ...

(AP) — Louisiana has long relied on a vast levee system to rein in the Mississippi River and protect surrounding communities ...

New Orleans’s own office for emergency preparedness acknowledges that its pumping system is overmatched by even modest storms. “The annual probability that New Orleans will experience flooding ...

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 ...

State and federal authorities broke ground on a conservation project to restore the 176-square-mile Maurepas Swamp near New ...

the Army Corps of Engineers has completed almost $800 million in repairs to the New Orleans levee system, repairs some say still leave the battered city vulnerable.