The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns date back to Biden’s term, when ...

Gov. Jeff Landry has appointed two new members to New Orleans’ levee board after a wave of resignations. One, a Katrina ...

While it’s been a quiet hurricane season thus far, New Orleans residents are always anxious about the state of hurricane ...

In a nutshell New Orleans’ $15 billion flood protection system is sinking up to 28 millimeters per year—nearly 10 times ...

Parts of New Orleans are sinking at alarming rates — including some of the very floodwalls built to protect it. A new ...

A $15 billion hurricane protection system guards New Orleans against flooding. Experts say it must be upgraded because of climate change and land loss.

New Orleans — As the Atlantic hurricane season has gotten underway, a new study published Friday by researchers at Tulane University reveals hotspots in New Orleans' concrete flood walls which ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a milestone for reflection, so a few weeks ago, I brought a group ...

NEW ORLEANS — Peak hurricane season is just weeks away along the Gulf Coast, and the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board is scrambling to fix key flood protection equipment. According to the ...

A massive drainage pump that is crucial to getting water out of the New Orleans during hurricanes has corroded just 5 years after being installed.

According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the West Shore project will not provide a level of hurricane risk reduction until the system is 100 percent complete.

Scientists have made an unsettling discovery about parts of New Orleans’ $15 billion hurricane protection system: They’re sinking faster than sea levels are rising. Using radar measurements ...