The bill, introduced by a freshman lawmaker from Plaquemines Parish, would require one of the flood agency's board members to ...

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 ...

“We haven’t seen this much damage since Hurricane Katrina,” Slidell ... batter the South Meanwhile in New Orleans, videos surfacing online show acute flash flooding. The aerial view shows ...

Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and depoliticized state levee boards. They are doing precisely the opposite of good ...

When the levees were breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the Ninth Ward was inundated. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

It has often been said that what happened to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina was a man-made disaster. A new book identifies former Mayor Ray Nagin as one of those men. “Katrina ...

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive flooding and killed dozens of ...

New Orleans' former Six Flags theme park ... Six Flags took over the lease, but then Hurricane Katrina struck, flooding the park and much of the city. The theme park never reopened, and Six ...

What became apparent to Spike and me as we collaborated was that Katrina, in New Orleans anyway, was a man-made disaster. At least 700 fellow citizens wouldn’t have died if the levee system and ...

Supported by By Shannon Sims Photographs by Emily Kask Ask a New Orleanian which of the city ... largely spared the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina, and this set the stage for the area ...

NEW ORLEANS ... mitigate flooding, but they also keep our neighborhoods cooler and our air cleaner, Burley said. Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley ...