A move to get the State Bond Commission to act Thursday to approve a fall election for New Orleans voters to renew a 5.46-mill property tax for the Orleans Levee District has run into criticism from ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Tuesday that it had secured funding for an annual inspection of the crucial levee and pump system that protects the New Orleans region from storm surge ...
It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 2,000 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.