The wave of resignations risks leaving the flood control agency paralyzed, with hurricane season's start just weeks away.

So far this month, four members resigned from a New Orleans-area levee board, most of them citing the reversal of reforms ...

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 ...

Jeff Landry and his unofficial adviser Shane Guidry that changes to the basic organizational set-up of New Orleans area levee boards are unwelcome. And if Guidry is going to smear current and ...

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred ... until the water dips back below 11 feet. Certain types of work that could disturb federal levees are prohibited without ...

NEW-ORLEANS ... State has ever known, under the influence of Executive pressure, and the stimulus or large sums of money judiciously employed, passed an act placing all levee work in the hands ...

Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the New Orleans area's levee authorities ... protection assets,” Mowbray said. Under the current system, PAR and CABL get ...

It was the storm long feared in a city situated on the vulnerable Gulf Coast, with many areas built below sea level ... provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.