A U.S. House-Senate conference committee on Wednesday rejected an amendment that would have required the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a detailed, 18-month study to determine whether permanent pump stations at the ends of three New Orleans drainage...

Nearly a year after the state and the Orleans Parish School Board approved a nearly $2 billion facilities spending blueprint for New Orleans schools, the panel charged with overseeing the projects and spending has yet to meet. In fact,...

$115 million project designed to address weak spots in weak links in the 66-mile chain of levees and floodwalls

Disaster officials rushed food, medicine and a temporary morgue to the Samoas on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake unleashed a tsunami that flattened villages and swept cars and people out to sea. At least 99 people were killed. Survivors...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency received praise Tuesday for unclogging some long overdue disaster assistance, but Rep. Anh Joseph Cao, R-New Orleans, said there still is an inexplicable delay in forgiving tens of millions of dollars in disaster loans. Bill...

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $9 million contract to raise a 1-mile-long portion of the East Bank Hurricane Protection Levee to 16.5 feet from 11.5 feet, a height designed to withstand a 100-year storm. Ellis Lucia/The...

The Department of Defense Inspector Generals Office has closed its investigation into allegations by a former employee of NOLA.com that employees of the Army Corps of Engineers used federal equipment to conduct a systemic attack on corps critics by making...

A federal judge has partially certified a class-action lawsuit filed against the Gretna Police Department and the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office for their decision to bar pedestrians from crossing the Crescent City Connection in the days following Hurricane Katrina. U.S....

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded two contracts worth $16 million to raise six miles of levees south of Marrero and Westwego. Clark Construction of St. Martinville received a $4.9 million contract to raise a levee that extends from...

"Can Our North Shore Coast Be Saved?",  the title of a presentation Monday evening in St. Tammany Parish Council chambers,  was left unanswered,  too ambitious perhaps for the two-and-one-half-hour discussion that attempted to map out the north shore's future relationship...