It's hard to imagine where New Orleans would be today without the spillway. But despite all the good it has done, many in ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the ...

The ever-growing storm surge, which at this time of the early morning is about nine feet above sea level, breaks ... between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.) The MR-GO's levees, which make ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing for the Mississippi River to reach some of its highest water levels in recent ...

The break, known as Neptune Pass, has grown so large it is comparable to the 10th-largest river in North America and the ...

More security measures will be in place along the lakefront in New Orleans as families celebrate Easter on Sunday, ...

Easter on the Lakefront has been a tradition for so many families, yet residents feel differently. “The pans of cheese and ...

But part of that is because we have such great law enforcement presence in the Orleans levee District police, but look, we've added now the New Orleans Police Department, Louisiana state troopers ...

As the river swelled, Louisiana officials grew increasingly concerned that the levee system protecting New Orleans could break, flooding the city and causing potentially catastrophic damage.