Judge Rips USACE over Katrina Failures

NEW ORLEANS The Settling Defendants are: the Orleans Levee District, the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee District, the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, the Board of Commissioners of the Lake Borgne Basin Levee District, the East ...

NEW ORLEANS The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District has reversed the ruling of a lower court in a case that pits landowners against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The suit was first filed by a group of New Orleans landowners in response ...

NEW ORLEANS, April 16 (UPI) -- In an opinion handed down Friday, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval blamed the agency for much of the flooding in the city during Hurricane Katrina, the (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Tuesday. Duval, who has ...

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the May 20, 2013 edition.) New Orleans resident Barbara Risin has lived in the first block of Jackson Avenue near the levee-protected Mississippi River since the 1940s. Sitting outside of her ...

Like the Life-Giving, Levee-Breaking River that winds through it's heart, the City of New Orleans is a symphony of contradictions. NOLA's French Quarter is both a garishly pantomimed tourist attraction and the genuine article: a place where ...

Reuters | 10 minutes ago A (Reuters) - The federal public corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, which was scheduled to start in late April, has been delayed until October after a joint request by prosecutors and defense attorneys, ...

Steal away for a weekend of sensory overload (in the form of food, drink, music, and history) in a Southern city with a heart of gold. All it takes is one visit to the Big Easy and youll develop a fierce, protective love. After your ...

Following a destructive earthquake, even the ceremony of rescue is morally and politically ambiguous, as rescuers fight not against nature, but against the twisted ruins of their own design failures. -Gregory Clancey, 2006 When the earthquake struck ...

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE "We are honored to receive this recognition from ACEC for the design work we completed in New Orleans" The Seabrook Sector Gate Complex spans the 500-ft wide New Orleans Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (IHNC) at ...