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

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 ...

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

High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday, Feb. 24. The river ...

A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become New Orleans writes, "This last summer I examined better than I had yet done all the lands in the vicinity of this river.

State legislators should make clear to Gov. Jeff Landry and his unofficial adviser Shane Guidry that changes to the basic organizational set-up of New Orleans area levee boards are unwelcome.

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A top adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the New Orleans area's levee authorities, drawing sharp criticism from government watchdogs who say he ...