Looking at the miles of charred, smoldering wood along the levee on Christmas Day, it is striking how little is left after the amount of work people put into the bonfires each year. But those who ...

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 ...

The bonfires on the levee through St. James and St ... and Bonfires will start work on a new one. Eventually, there will be new builders, too. “You want the younger generation to learn this ...

HE’S READY FOR THE WINTER OLYMPICS. HE’S GOT HIS SKIS OUT. HE’S ABOUT TO MAKE A RUN ON, ON ON THE LEVEE AT THE NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT. HE’S GETTING HIS BOOTS READY. HE HAS LITERALLY BEEN ...

Behind the scenes, an unelected adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect the New Orleans area from storm surge flooding. Shane Guidry, the Metairie ...

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 ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...