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

After the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office acknowledged water leaks and shut-off s at the jail over Memorial Day weekend, the ...

As New Orleans officials brace for yet another potent hurricane season, stockpiling supplies and holding briefings with ...

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

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

The only way to pinpoint the lowest center of pressure inside a hurricane is to put a manned aircraft in it. Right in the ...

During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane ... flood defenses, which had not been completed prior to Katrina.

IN OUR LATEST INSTALLMENT OF FACES OF KATRINA, WDSU TRAVERS MACKEL HAS MORE FROM PLAQUEMINES PARISH AND THE MAN WHO LED THEM THROUGH THE WORST NATURAL DISASTER TO EVER HAPPEN. THERE. FOR AS FAR AS ...

With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide in 2023. The agency began encouraging cities, towns and counties ...

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