The sill, or underwater levee, is being built for a third year in a row to head off the potential for New Orleans area ...

The council announced it has the money in hand hours after Mayor LaToya Cantrell questioned where it would come from.

During segregation, Lincoln Beach was the one place on Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans where Black people were allowed to ...

Hurricane Francine suddenly dropped an incredible amount of rain on New Orleans. Water rose fast in some spots. Gravity works ...

As the Mississippi River water level lowers, the possibility of a saltwater intrusion increases, and for the third year in a ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is building a new sill in the Mississippi River to prevent saltwater intrusion.

A red and black warning flag flies Tuesday at New Orleans' lakefront ahead of Tropical Storm Francine's landfall. Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios New Orleans is under a tropical storm warning ahead ...

NEW ORLEANS — A Lakeview couple is in shock and frustrated ... "Shortly after that I put up sandbags by the back door and put another barrier on the back door to try and block the water, but it came ...

Officials in Louisiana warned that it was too late to evacuate as heavy rain from the hurricane pelted the southern part of ...

No injuries, major structure damage or road closures were reported in Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. About 2,000 folks ...

There should be no excuse,” Landry said. “There really should be no excuse to increase premiums just because of this storm.” ...

Charleston now has its first city-wide flood risk management plan that looks at what should be done to control the flow of ...