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

A look back at some of the most destructive and deadliest hurricanes to ever hit Louisiana.

An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...

Detailed, harrowing and triumphant first-person accounts and never before seen archive illustrate the magnitude of Katrina, the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery.” ...

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 ...

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

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion ...

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system ...

Construction for the Tudor flood risk reduction project began in 2013 at Shanghai Bend, the same site of the 1955 levee break that claimed the lives of 30 people. "It's an eternal, vigilant effort.

However, the bay's communities rely almost entirely on an aging system of levees for their protection; levees that were not built to withstand the extreme conditions driven by climate change.