A controversial federal project to replace the lock on the Industrial Canal in New Orleans has ballooned in cost — from under $1 billion to nearly $5 billion — even as opposition builds among those ...
On the morning that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a levee breach sucked a barge out of the Industrial Canal and into a residential section of the Lower 9th Ward, where it landed on top of homes, ...
A new funding commitment announced by State Rep. Lindsey Patterson could move long-delayed restoration work forward at the Whitewater Canal State Historic Site, but state officials and preservation ...