It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

Federal budget cuts will stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from conducting regular inspections of New Orleans’ levees this year and next — a break in oversight that comes 20 years after protection ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Nearly two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region, Levees.org is pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clarify whether the metro area’s $14 billion ...

Twenty years out from the New Orleans disaster, the city’s levee and flood wall system must be raised or the region could become ineligible for federal flood insurance. NEW ORLEANS — Two things are ...

East of New Orleans, uniformed employees mill about the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier on the Intracoastal Waterway, making sure everything is working correctly. Giant flood walls made out of concrete and ...

This story, headlined "Beating back the sea," was originally published Nov. 13, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...