It has been 20 years since New Orleans’ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has spent much of the past three years strengthening the levee system that Hurricane Katrina breached — but the project isn't supposed to be finished until ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A United States Department of Commerce and Economic Development Administration sign can be seen in front of the Hepburn Pump System on Hepburn Street in Williamsport. The city ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinook helicopter drops sandbags into a breach along the London Avenue canal in New Orleans to close a levee breach after ...

The Federal Emergency Management Administration on Thursday declared the New Orleans area levee system accredited, clearing the way for the improved storm surge protection to be incorporated into ...

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.

A levee system that protects Terrebonne and parts of Lafourche from Gulf of Mexico hurricanes will receive $379 million in federal money from the infrastructure bill passed by Congress, officials said ...

A large storm, known as an atmospheric river, brought flooding and evacuation orders Friday to parts of California, a state already reeling from weeks of record snowfall. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty ...

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 ...

The passage of Senate Bill 5 in 2007 to identity 200-year flood plains in California in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina levee failure disaster and required protection to be in place — or work ...

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 ...

PALMVIEW, Texas (Border Report) — As federally-authorized construction crews toiled away Thursday to repair four giant breaches in the earthen levees caused by border wall construction in South Texas, ...