The Lower Ninth Ward begins flooding extremely rapidly, and a barge drifts through the major part of the breach, breaking ... the earthen levee gives way here. 9. Once the eye of Katrina reaches ...

What became apparent to Spike and me as we collaborated was that Katrina, in New Orleans anyway, was a man-made disaster. At least 700 fellow citizens wouldn’t have died if the levee system and ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN)-- A federal judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the failure of levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.

It seems about right, since I've come to see what spurred some of the hottest words in the whole post-Katrina blame game ... Corps says the new barriers and levees are stronger than in 2005 ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.

The agency, officially known as the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, oversees a complex system of levees and pumps rebuilt in the wake of Katrina on the New Orleans area's east ...

Jeff Landry's bid to overhaul the agency that maintains New Orleans' hurricane protection levees and pumps will be considered by the state Legislature, drawing fresh concerns that post-Katrina ...