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 ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has appointed two new members to New Orleans’ levee board after a wave of resignations. One, a Katrina ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

New Orleans finds itself in the path of Hurricane Ida 16 years to the day after floodwalls collapsed and levees were overtopped by a storm surge driven by Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Ida began violently tearing through South Louisiana on Sunday, ... “We’re going to see if it works,” she said of the upgraded flood protection system.

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 ...