The new saltwater barrier will reach a height of 30 ... according to the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. If the Oct. 5 forecast holds, the elevated salinity levels will reach the west ...

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.

The volume of water in the Mississippi River has fallen to a level that allows saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico to enter upstream. The sill will naturally erode when the Mississippi River returns ...

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

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

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 ...

“Water had already begun to breach the ... The same company helped design a $1.1 billion, two-mile-long barrier that protected New Orleans from a 13.6-foot storm surge last summer, when ...

Salt water is moving upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. Drought in the central United States has weakened the mighty river’s ...

So far the threat does not appear as severe as last year, when forecasts showed the salt water reaching New Orleans and its suburbs. That set off a scramble to put together plans for temporary ...

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Francine rapidly strengthened before making landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people, flooding a cemetery and dumping ...