All areas east of the breach flood to about 12 feet above sea ... The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 ...
Board members overseeing the New Orleans area levee authority ... We have $15 billion worth of flood protection structures and levees across this city. That is a pretty complex operation to ...
The changes at the flood authority raise questions ... the chief of police for the University of New Orleans from 2022 until he took the job at the levee authority in 2024. From 2007 to 2022 ...
A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become New Orleans writes, "This last summer I examined better than I had yet done all the lands in the vicinity of this river.
Developers are tearing down the Six Flags amusement complex in New Orleans two decades after it was decimated during Hurricane Katrina.
First, there was President Trump’s executive order to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in the Central ...
Jakarta, Indonesia Jakarta, the bustling capital of Indonesia, faces a watery crisis unlike any other. The city sinks by as ...
Flood insurance is a tenet of life in water-burdened Louisiana. The low-lying portions of the state face rising water from ...
HE’S READY FOR THE WINTER OLYMPICS. HE’S GOT HIS SKIS OUT. HE’S ABOUT TO MAKE A RUN ON, ON ON THE LEVEE AT THE NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT. HE’S GETTING HIS BOOTS READY. HE HAS LITERALLY BEEN ...
The Army Corps of Engineers' plan to reduce Jersey Shore bayfront flooding no longer includes flood walls and storm surge ...
As he watches Super Bowl LIX this Sunday in New Orleans, President Trump might wish to raise a troubling topic with Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.