The wind continues to howl in New Orleans though the rain is coming in patches. A few fences are down but there is no sign of large-scale flooding — yet. However, just before noon, Maj. Tim ...

Three years and $3 billion since Katrina, the levees threaten to fail once again. New Orleans, levees, Louisiana, Osunsami, Army Corp of Engineers, Goldman ABC ...

Louisiana’s landmark climate adaptation program is running out of time “We can rebuild a piece of marsh, ... A rebuilt levee wall in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS – Fifteen years ago this week, a Coast Guard helicopter pulled Webster Rainy from his niece's rooftop in the Lower 9th Ward as floodwaters swallowed his neighbors in the wake of ...

Not far from the festivities in New Orleans, the Ninth Ward sits nearly silent. One of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, it was severely flooded after Hurricane Katrina. But just as homeowners are ...

The Lower Ninth Ward is an impoverished neighborhood that gained national recognition when a levee broke after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. About 9,000 people in the neighborhood died from flooding.

Experts once wrote New Orleans' 9th Ward off for dead. ... Less than 1,000 feet from the Lake Pontchartrain levees that failed so ... the State of Louisiana is asking for bids on millions of ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...