NEW ORLEANS – Emergency preparedness officials in Louisiana know it's only a matter of time before a hurricane or other severe storm brews in the gulf. "We've had 27 hurricanes hit the coast of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion levee ...

The levee system along the Columbia River in Multnomah County could be in for an overhaul under a local bond measure in the upcoming primary. Measure 26-243 asks voters to invest up to $150 million to ...

Williston's levee system is facing sediment buildup, leading to its shrinking ability to hold back floodwater. City leaders ...

The area being studied, north of the Mississippi River and west of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, is highly vulnerable to flooding from Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas, according to a corps news release.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, Levees.org is pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clarify whether the metro area’s $14 billion ...

One of the reviews, completed in 2011, gave the 350-mile levee system the second worst classification - "Urgent (Unsafe or Potentially Unsafe)" -- in the corps' Levee Safety Action Classification ...

PLUMERVILLE, Ark. — With the onslaught of rain that Arkansas saw earlier this month, and more expected in the coming days, some in Conway County have been claiming that their levee system isn’t ...