Leaders in metro New Orleans say they have tested, checked and prepped everything they can for hurricane season, which starts ...

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane ...

The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out ...

Weathering and working through Hurricane Katrina sharpened me as a parent and a professional. Yet it's nothing compared to ...

Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina exposed the New Orleans area's levee system as a "system in name only," its redesign and reconstruction — at a cost of $14.6 billion — is finally almost ...

NEW ORLEANS — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that ... to upgrade a system that catastrophically failed when Hurricane Katrina struck 16 years ago. But strengthening the flood protection ...

As the 2025 hurricane season approaches, New Orleans leaders reflect on Katrina’s legacy, highlight major storm protection ...

The New Orleans area levees infamously crumbled during 2005's Hurricane Katrina, exposing fatal design flaws. But 19 years after the catastrophe, the city is still paying for the flood protections ...

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 ...

Black New Orleans withstood the battle ... and rising home costs paired with stagnant wages. The levee failures following Hurricane Katrina resulted in citywide flooding and the destruction ...

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