St. Bernard Parish officials gathered today to break ground on a new public works facility in Chalmette. The Public Works Yard will cost around $1.8 million and consolidate the functions of five buildings that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005,...

Youngsters venturing outdoors to try out their new toys in the New Orleans area were greeted with brisk winds and much cooler and drier air this morning, with the promise of only a few more chances of showers in the...

Threats of high water and rains fail to dampen annual tradition

Scott Threlkeld / The Times-PicayuneA FEMA trailer. Victims affected by 2008 hurricanes can live in their FEMA trailers until March 2011 after authorities extended the deadline to move out of them by a year.The Federal Emergency Management Agency has...

Wind and rain precede cold front arriving Thursday

The Army Corps of Engineers has recommended changes in the proposed designs of three levee segments along Lake Pontchartrain in eastern New Orleans that will eliminate the need to adjust the tracks of the adjacent Norfolk Southern Railroad. The changes...

More than 50 east bank Plaquemines Parish residents showed up Monday night with pointed questions for the Army Corps of Engineers about a massive federal levee system that will protect St. Bernard Parish, but will increase the risk of flooding...

On a rural patch of land between the Mississippi River and the vast swath of marshes south of St. Bernard Parish, plans are being finalized for the last stretch of a nearly 25-mile ring of concrete floodwalls that will arm...

Corps of Engineers working on New Orleans, Jefferson storm-proofing wish lists

Chuck Cook / The Times-PicayuneA Louisiana National Guard truck patrols near Slidell in April after parts of the River Gardens subdivision were flooded due to rising waters from the Pearl River.Though the forecast for St. Tammany Parish this weekend...