The sun shines brighter in this upended New Orleans fall season ... wildly clipping trees that once made the city an urban forest. Uptown didn’t flood, and most of its houses survived.

The new maps mean flood insurance for these areas is optional. But with half the city at or below sea level and memories of post-Hurricane Katrina... New Maps Label Much Of New Orleans Out Of ...

NEW ORLEANS — It took 14 years for an opportunity to meet inspiration at the old Lake Forest Towers in New Orleans East, but this year the long-abandoned building is back. Empty since Hurricane ...

Orleans Parish is seeing its flood maps updated for the first time since 1984 today. More than half of the city is moving out of the so-called “high risk” zone—this comes with lower flood ...