The proximate cause of Guidry's “reform” proposal is that Guidry and Carubba want police chief Joshua Rondeno serving as the ...

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee authority resigned on Thursday, escalating the fallout over controversial ...

At this week's meeting of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority governing board, the agency announced $6 ...

Hurricane season is approaching with major challenges at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East. The ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of ...

(Photo Credit: Elise Plunk/ Louisiana Illuminator) High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New ...

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 ...

It was built as part of construction of the vast levee system along the river following the great flood of 1927, which severely inundated Louisiana communities. It has been opened 15 times since ...