The property loss paled in comparison to the human disaster of the starving, desperate, abandoned people at the Superdome and the convention center and those trapped by the water from the levee breaks ...

Grays Harbor County in Washington secured a federal grant to pay for a much-needed levee with bipartisan support. Then the ...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s push to take control of New Orleans’ flood board has been scaled back and a revised bill keeps the ...

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asked President Bush to declare an emergency for her state Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Rita's arrival somewhere on the Gulf Coast. Earlier, Blanco declared a state of ...

Evacuations continue and more than 2,000 FEMA personnel are deployed as the gulf coast braces for Hurricane Ida, a category 4 storm -- on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the most devastating ...