Louisiana has yet to spend $1.5 billion of federal disaster recovery aid provided by Congress after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike ravaged the state in 2005 and 2008.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 25-acre site unused since Hurricane Katrina is among seven in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes chosen as laboratories for an ambitious $6.2 billion proposal to keep water inside levees instead of pumping it out...
The Mississippi Gulf Coast is thriving, parts of New Orleans are a ghost town and may never be neighborhoods again. What's the difference? Is it too many waiting on a hand out or too many hands reaching into the recovery funds for personal gain?
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials say New Orleans' flood protections system is holding up so far as Hurricane Isaac storms through the area.
Army Corps of Engineers spokeswoman Rachel Rodi says the corps expects to be on "high alert" for the next 12 to 24 hours, but they're confident it's going well so far...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing another $9.2 million to help southeast Louisiana recover from Hurricane Katrina.
St. Bernard Parish is getting back $1.4 million spent to demolish and remove thousands of houses that couldn't be repaired after the 2005 storm...
A Hammond woman has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining funds from the American Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Lance Africk yesterday also ordered 31-year-old Lafreda Winston to pay full restitution to the Red Cross.
The federal government is seeking to overturn a 2009 ruling that found the Army Corps of Engineers responsible for massive flooding after Hurricane Katrina because it failed to properly maintain a navigation channel.
It was six years ago today that Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana, tearing through everything in its path, causing billions of dollars in damages.
A date is set for a former FEMA employee and a government contractor to be arraigned on charges they conspired to fraudulently obtain a $100 million contract for maintaining government-issued shelters in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.
BELLE CHASSE, La. (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers says it will meet a deadline it gave itself after Hurricane Katrina to greatly improve the New Orleans area's hurricane protection system by the start of the 2011 hurricane season.
WASHINGTON – In a letter to President Barack Obama, United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today joined 13 Senate colleagues to once again press the administration to address the shortfall in the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF).
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has refused to disqualify a lawyer from representing one of six current or former New Orleans police officers charged in deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
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– United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., said today the transformation of New Orleans public schools following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita should serve as a national model for education reform.