WWL Louisiana has learned the water board plans to flip the switch on its new $300 million power substation on July 14.

Tensions at the New Orleans flood protection board erupted into shouting, accusations of corruption, and a near physical ...

Some recent legislative changes seem to have been motivated by skewed perceptions about the pre-Katrina Orleans Levee Board ...

A watered-down version of a bill that initially sought to allow Gov. Jeff Landry to reshape New Orleans’ flood protection ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, 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 ...

There has been a river of tears since the EF3 tornado hit the St. Louis area on May 16. Tears are still being shed by the ...

JUNEAU — Over the past few months, contractors in Juneau have been constructing roughly 2 miles of temporary barriers, in ...

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

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

Those interior canals were often where the flood defenses failed ... The plan for New Orleans’ post-Katrina levees was the “economy model,” says Horowitz—it’s not designed to keep ...

A closed flood gate on Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans ... houses were destroyed or severely damaged. Before Katrina, New Orleans’ levees were known as the city’s Hurricane Protection System.