Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and ...

The wave of resignations risks leaving the flood control agency paralyzed, with hurricane season's start just weeks away.

So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

The “Help Wanted” sign is out at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Authority East, after the resignations of four board members.

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.

By 1726, the levee remains incomplete, though a section fully 18 feet tall stands before the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square) in the heart of the nascent town. After New Orleans floods in 1731 ...

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge left the Baltimore community forever changed. What has America learned from past ...

While Katrina was 10 years ago, it's still the model for what could happen because the factors that made the storm so devastating are getting worse — sea levels are rising and as global ...

Jeff Landry and his unofficial adviser Shane Guidry that changes to the basic organizational set-up of New Orleans area levee boards are unwelcome. And if Guidry is going to smear current and ...