Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...

Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that ... of the flood control system built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to protect New Orleans from storm surge. Those reforms aimed ...

And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane ... being done to strengthen the levee system,” she said.

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And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane ... being done to strengthen the levee system,” she said.

To protect communities in St. Tammany Parish, a county north of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana plans to build a $5.9 billion levee and floodwall system ... In New Orleans, a study was authorized ...

Hurricane Katrina's fury caused a rise in seawater levels, wind damage and the failure of the New Orleans’ levee system, resulting in more than 1,800 deaths and displacing more than 1 million people.

New Orleans city officials are rolling out an AI-powered system to transform urban roadways, making them safer and more ...

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On Aug. 3, 1975, the Louisiana Superdome opened to the public after nine years of development, delays, anticipation, and ...

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The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will face off on Sunday. With more than 2,500 law enforcement officers from the state, local and federal law enforcement agencies, New Orleans ...