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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell wants everyone who lives or works outside the city's levee protection system to evacuate. In a Friday news conference, Mayor Cantrell also called ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana’s hurricane protection system was overwhelmed by Katrina because it was built disjointedly using outdated data, according to an Army Corps of Engineers report released ...

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 ...