The Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts are the latest factor. But funding concerns date back to Biden’s term, when ...

But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane protection system – a network of surge barriers, floodwalls and bolstered levees erected after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – mostly did ...

In a nutshell New Orleans’ $15 billion flood protection system is sinking up to 28 millimeters per year—nearly 10 times ...

While it’s been a quiet hurricane season thus far, New Orleans residents are always anxious about the state of hurricane ...

After the failure of levees and floodwalls during Hurricane Katrina sank the New Orleans area in 2005, killing 1,833 people, Congress gave the Corps of Engineers $14.6 billion to bolster ...

After Katrina, the federal government spent $14.5 billion on projects designed to enhance protection from storm surge and flooding in New Orleans and surrounding suburbs south of Lake Pontchartrain.

Saturday, New Orleans residents will observe the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that unleashed deadly floods throughout the city in 2005 after man-made levees and flood walls failed.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has more than 140 projects in the works to try to reduce the risks to New Orleans from the next hurricane. As hurricane protection goes, so goes New Orleans' future - CNET ...

NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Ida began violently tearing through South Louisiana on Sunday, ... “We’re going to see if it works,” she said of the upgraded flood protection system.

The mayor of New Orleans on Friday night warned residents to “hunker down” ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Ida — which is threatening to slam the city as a dangerous Category 4 storm ...

New Orleans Levees Passed Hurricane Ida's Test, But Some Suburbs Flooded. August 31, 2021 10:45 AM ET. By . The Associated Press Enlarge this image ...

Hurricane Ida peeled roofs off homes, flooded some communities and knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana.. But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal hurricane ...