Work is underway on another section of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain storm risk reduction project as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded two more contracts. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Corps ...

A gap in the levee underneath the North Cross Valley Expressway lets vehicles pass through and then is closed to prevent flooding when water reaches high elevation. Work on the Brookside Levee ...

Des Moines city engineers and staff are looking to cut costs on a levee improvement project that's already $35 million over budget. The city began the eight-phase project in 2020, but with increasing ...

Levee or view? Pretty soon that decision will come from the top. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey began the push for funding that could aid the West Pittston levee project. In a letter to a key Senate committee ...

Crews work on the sand fill along the centerline of the levee and the protected side channel excavation for a portion of the West Shore Lake Pontchartrain hurricane and storm damage risk reduction ...

A plan to plant thousands of hardwood trees across 125 acres in St. Charles Parish to make up for those cut down to build a huge hurricane levee project made sense on paper. In practice, the idea did ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. (WGNO) — ...

A slew of state, Jefferson Parish and Lafitte officials gathered near Bayou Barataria in Jean Lafitte on Tuesday morning to commemorate the beginning of the $14 million levee and floodwall project ...

With Friday's resignation of the beleaguered head of the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission, the $200 million question has become whether the long-running federal levee project will ...

In this, the fall of many people’s discontent, it’s become an accepted truth that the wheels of government move slowly, if at all, on things that really matter or to help the disadvantaged. But not ...

Unanticipated engineering issues and the need to relocate utility lines have delayed completion of a combined levee and road project along the Brazos River and will cost the county $225,000 more than ...