The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

Law enforcement remains confident that they'll be able to capture everyone who fled in the jailbreak at the Orleans Parish ...

During Katrina, the intersection of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet acted like a giant “V” to funnel storm surge into New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish.

Weathering and working through Hurricane Katrina sharpened me as a parent and a professional. Yet it's nothing compared to ...

With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide in 2023. The agency began encouraging cities, towns and counties ...

Led by the Louisiana State Police, over 200 law enforcement personnel are hunting for the six escaped inmates from a New Orleans jail who are still on the loose.

Mindful that the suburban West Bank of New ... broke ground last week on the West Closure Structure, a floodgate and pump system designed to close off those canals and bolster the area's levees.

Levees crumbled in the night ... The wash of his steamers menaced tottering dikes. In New Orleans, where the Thompson trip was to terminate in welcome-speeches, in reception-com-mittees, masses ...