The bill, introduced by a freshman lawmaker from Plaquemines Parish, would require one of the flood agency's board members to ...

Before long ... his searing HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke. What became apparent to Spike and me as we collaborated was that Katrina, in New Orleans anyway, was a man-made disaster.

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 ...

Opinion: Gov. Jeff Landry and businessman Shane Guidry are busy in trying to reverse reforms that professionalized and depoliticized state levee boards. They are doing precisely the opposite of good ...

The agency, officially known as the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, oversees a complex system of levees and pumps rebuilt in the wake of Katrina on the New Orleans area's east ...

It's not clear what Gov. Jeff Landry's end game is as he tries to make drastic changes to the flood protection authority that ...

What happened to New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, when three levees broke and the city ... of thousands in Jefferson Parish. Just before Katrina made landfall, Broussard ...

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

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.

Director Spike Lee's intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, including interviews with many people involved in the disaster ...

When the levees were breached in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, the Ninth Ward was inundated. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted ...

The “Help Wanted” sign is out at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Authority East, after the resignations of four board members. Some say key flood improvement votes could be affected. But one reformer ...