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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun working on an underwater sill across the Mississippi River channel to further the upriver progression of saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico. The first part of ...

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

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...