A line of development stretches across Southwest Louisiana, where a new law looks to redefine what wetland areas need permitting for development. (Elise Plunk/Louisiana Illuminator. Aerial support ...

Seven U.S. cities—from Miami and New Orleans to New York—are identified as the most vulnerable to rising sea levels over the ...

The Centre de la Louisiane sign, marking the geographic center of Louisiana, stands on Old River Road in Mansura, about 5 ...

The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at home are the latest in a grim spike in political violence. One lawmaker and her husband were killed while a second one and his wife ...

A new tool has predicted all the major cities currently located in America's danger zone according to best and worst case ...

With New Orleans below sea level, and the ever-growing issue of finding space to bury loved ones, tombs and mausoleums quickly caught on in the 1800s.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - On Wednesday (May 28), only a handful of construction workers with the M.R. Pittman Group were present at the Mirabeau Water Garden construction site in Gentilly, just 24 ...

New Orleans, home to more than 360,000 people, and the surrounding areas are now sinking by up to two inches every year - with projections warning that much of the region could be underwater by 2050.

The crown jewel of New Orleans’s impressive new hurricane protections is a 1.8-mile-long, 25-to-26-foot-high surge barrier across a marsh landscape that includes the much-loathed Mississippi ...

New Orleans is not only living with water — it is living with huge tropical storms, with floods, with power outages. It is living, in other words, with eyes wide open.

And they’ve lost a lot of people. A lot of people have moved out. But they’re also losing land. And that’s obviously due to sea level rise that’s driven by climate change, and it’s causing their land ...

A temporary pump has been deployed.All other underpass pumps are in service.Click here for an overview and an interactive map of our drainage system.Power status:Turbine 4 available for use ...