NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Much of southern, swampy Louisiana is below sea level and levees are designed to protect residents from flooding when big storms hit. However, there are differences in who builds ...

Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...

Netflix's new documentary series, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, reexamines Hurricane Katrina 20 years after the storm devastated New Orleans, shining new light on what went wrong with the city's ...

LAPLACE, La. -- At the urging of residents who have long felt forgotten in the shadow of more densely populated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will look into whether the city's ...

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...