A major winter storm that slammed Texas and the northern Gulf Coast is spreading heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across ...

15. The catastrophic failure of the levee walls seals New Orleans' fate. Designed to protect the city from a surge of at least 11.2 feet above sea level, the walls failed with a maximum surge of ...

Biden commutes life sentence of Leonard Peltier, Native American activist imprisoned for almost 50 years An amateur ...

Many remember the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that devoured the city of New Orleans in 2005, leaving the Six Flags ...

Behind the scenes, an unelected adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect the New Orleans area from storm surge flooding. Shane Guidry, the Metairie ...

Board members overseeing the New Orleans area levee authority pushed back on some of the changes being pursued by a close adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday, with several urging the hiring ...

CORRECTS CITY TO HARAHAN NOT HARHAN People walk from the snow covered Mississippi River levee the day after a rare and record setting snowstorm in Harhan, La., a suburb of New Orleans, Wednesday ...