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 ...

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 ...

Netflix's new documentary series, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, reexamines Hurricane Katrina 20 years after the storm devastated New Orleans, shining new light on what went wrong with the city's ...

Federal budget cuts will stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting regular inspections of New Orleans’ levees this year and next — a break in oversight that comes 20 years after protection ...

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...