PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — Water flowing through a gap in a floodwall project near West Point a la Hache was plugged by contractors Saturday afternoon, a few hours after cameras caught the water ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Much of southern, swampy Louisiana is below sea level and levees are designed to protect residents from flooding when big storms hit. However, there are differences in who builds ...

Officials begin to place sandbags on levees in Myrtle Grove A state of emergency for Plaquemines Parish was called in at 6 a.m. Sunday by parish president Billy Nungesser as continues to move north ...

Rescues were carried out there while in New Orleans, the levee system was holding, though power lines were downed and debris littered the streets, prompting officials to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew.

NEW ORLEANS — The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since the federal government spent billions of dollars to ...

BURAS, La. — At the Fort Jackson Museum and Welcome Center on Friday morning, survivors, leaders, and neighbors gathered in the very place where Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago — honoring ...

As Hurricane Isaac moves along Plaquemines Parish, President Billy Nungesser came back from his home near Pointe-a-la-Hache worse for wear, fearful about the water moving up the east bank levee and ...

IRONTON, La. (AP) – When Hurricane Isaac whirled into the Gulf Coast this week, the federal levee system protecting New Orleans did its job. But the patchwork of floodwalls shielding subdivisions ...

But in Isaac, the residents of Plaquemines Parish are battling an adversary some fear they may have underestimated, even as it weakens to a tropical storm. "We've never seen it this bad -- the way ...

-- Isaac, now a tropical depression, is still drenching parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. Forecasters say it will eventually move into Arkansas and Missouri. -- Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has ...