It’s Thursday, and time for our Week in Politics with the Times Picayune’s/The Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today, we discuss President Trump’s proposal to send the ...
IRONTON, La. – When Hurricane Isaac whirled into the Gulf Coast this week, the federal levee system protecting New Orleans did its job. But the patchwork of floodwalls shielding subdivisions outside ...
Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags into a breach along the London Avenue canal in New Orleans to close a levee breach after ...
Federal budget cuts will stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting regular inspections of New Orleans’ levees this year and next — a break in oversight that comes 20 years after protection ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The New Orleans levee system was routinely underfunded and therefore inadequate to protect against hurricanes, according to an independent report released Monday. The report also ...
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the federal government (along with state and local help) committed more than $14 billion to develop a levee and pumping system around New Orleans capable of ...
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