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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Army Corps of Engineers and the Jefferson Parish Levee District working on the Lake Pontchartain levees. Over the next two years, a Corps project to raise the Mississippi River levee along the ...

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 ...

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 ...

KENNER, La. - The bike path on top of the Mississippi River on the east bank of Jefferson Parish is well traveled. It is a popular spot to walk, run and ride. Wednesday, Debbie Owens from Metairie ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...