The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation ...

Erica Johnson, an urban farmer in New Orleans, won the Board of Supervisors seat for the Crescent Soil and Water Conservation ...

DOTD plans to begin phased repairs this week. The bridge is one of seven across Terrebonne Parish currently shut down, ...

Some recent legislative changes seem to have been motivated by skewed perceptions about the pre-Katrina Orleans Levee Board that we’d like to correct, say the writers, from levees.org. After ...

LeBeouf Bros.Towing, Bourg, La., christened the 120'x34'x11' pushboat Capt. Mark Delesdernier Jr. in a ceremony that took ...

Black New Orleans withstood the battle ... This room was reserved for company and special occasions. It was where she held her card games and the club meetings with her friends; it was where ...

Jeff Landry has begun asserting control over a key New Orleans area levee authority by naming a ... Referring to his marine transportation company Harvey Gulf International Marine, Guidry said ...

A new levee system is under construction to help reduce the risk of flooding in communities north of New Orleans. It’s called the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain Project. Jeff Williams is the ...

As daily afternoon storm clouds roll in, Johnson begins hiking up to a platform on the levee that protects ... conference in New Orleans on Aug. 31, 2006. The late Dashiell co-founded CSED with ...

a company with partners that include a former judge and a New Orleans lawyer and real estate developer. The Pontchartrain Levee District and Louisiana officials negotiated for two years with Nature ...

a company with partners that include a former judge and a New Orleans lawyer and real estate developer. The Pontchartrain Levee District and Louisiana officials negotiated for two years with ...