Home Buyer Louisiana clears legal hurdles to restore blighted homes, boost neighborhoods, and stabilize New Orleans' housing ...

French authorities ordered black partition walls erected around some Israeli defense industry exhibits at the Paris Air Show, a move denounced by Israel’s Defense Ministry, ...

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

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 ...

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

That means during a tropical storm, flood gates close ... U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District. The levees now incorporate T-shaped reinforced concrete walls, replacing the ...

The Army Corps says it’s finished fixing corroded flood pumps at New Orleans' outfall canals — a $760 million system built after Katrina that began failing just five years in.

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one ... consists of 150 miles of improved levees, flood walls and gates. Below are some of the key features: During Katrina, the intersection of the ...

The flood wall is expected to stand at least four feet ... similar to what you see in New Orleans, just on a smaller scale," said Lance Robichaux, the leading civil engineer on the project.

flood walls and levees, similar to the structures installed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina toppled levees and flooded most of the city in 2005. At the time, Corps officials suggested that ...

The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency on Wednesday night for the I-10 corridor in the New Orleans ...