It’s Thursday, and time for our Week in Politics with the Times Picayune’s/The Advocate’s editorial director and columnist, Stephanie Grace. Today, we discuss President Trump’s proposal to send the ...

Terrebonne Basin Barrier Islands: Barrier islands often serve as first lines of defense in storms. Projects here have ...

Darren Austin stood atop a hulking wall at the edge of Lake Pontchartrain and watched the Seabrook Floodgate glide closed, the movement of the massive structure progressing so slowly that it was ...

East of New Orleans, uniformed employees mill about the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier on the Intracoastal Waterway, making sure everything is working correctly. Giant flood walls made out of concrete and ...

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 ...

New Orleans’ levee authority is starting a special police unit armed with semi-automatic rifles and trained in SWAT tactics, according to an internal memo and agency officials, a change it says is ...