Parish president urges residents to conserve water, so as not to overload sewerage In Jefferson Parish, 172,000 lose power, levee breached, boats loose, building collapsed | Hurricane Center ...

A slew of state, Jefferson Parish and Lafitte officials gathered near Bayou Barataria in Jean Lafitte on Tuesday morning to commemorate the beginning of the $14 million levee and floodwall ...

Upcoming improvements to the Jefferson Parish levee system will be a major inconvenience for bikers and joggers. The project will raise 9 miles of levee from the Orleans Parish Line to St. Charles ...

Levee raising in Jefferson Parish to improve 9-mile stretch Levee would be raised between 2 and 3 feet as part of $10.5 million project. Updated: 5:00 PM CDT Oct 8, 2013 ...

One of Jefferson Parish's biggest landowners recently sold more than 1,000 acres to a West Bank levee board, which intends to plant trees on the property to make up for ...

The board in charge of West Jefferson's levees doesn’t have the money to pay for maintaining the vastly upgraded but sinking multibillion-dollar federal levee system. It has a plan to ...

Sediment is being pumped into a protected space along Jefferson Parish's lakefront to create marsh. Image: Carlie Kollath Wells/Axios Workers are busy building a "living shoreline" along Metairie ...

At 10:48 p.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service said local law enforcement in central Jefferson Parish reported a levee failing around the areas of Lafitte and Jean Lafitte, with more than 200 ...

Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng signed a mandatory evacuation order for anyone living outside the levee protection system in Jefferson Parish. Sign up for our Newsletters.

Jean Lafitte is home to about 10,000 residents. It is also part of Jefferson Parish, which includes the Greater New Orleans area. "We have areas in Jefferson Parish, what we call outside the levee ...

LAFITTE, La.-- At a dedication on Saturday in Lafitte, a plaque unveiling paid tribute to a community that is no longer there. Manila Village-- a Filipino community-- once stood near Barataria Bay ...