Real-time flood monitors are now in use across New Orleans, utilizing a solar-powered system that uses sound pulses to detect the distance from the sensor to the waterline. We found one sensor ...

Board members overseeing the New Orleans area levee authority pushed back on some of the changes being pursued by a close adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday, with several urging the hiring of a ...

Many remember the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that devoured the city of New Orleans in 2005, leaving the Six Flags Complex in Eastern New Orleans in shambles.

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect the New Orleans area from storm surge flooding. Shane Guidry, the Metairie businessman who made his fortune supplying the ...

Flood insurance is a tenet of life in water-burdened Louisiana. But skyrocketing costs of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage are spurring significant departure from the program.