The wave of resignations risks leaving the flood control agency paralyzed, with hurricane season's start just weeks away.

Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and ...

The “Help Wanted” sign is out at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Authority East, after the resignations of four board members.

So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission.

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

By 1726, the levee remains incomplete, though a section fully 18 feet tall stands before the Place d'Armes (now Jackson Square) in the heart of the nascent town. After New Orleans floods in 1731 ...

The Corps has said in years past that the New Orleans levees are designed to defend against river levels between 20 to 25 feet. The highest recorded level for the Mississippi River at New Orleans ...

Jeff Landry and his unofficial adviser Shane Guidry that changes to the basic organizational set-up of New Orleans area levee boards are unwelcome. And if Guidry is going to smear current and ...