NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The first archaeological dig at one of the nation's oldest cathedrals has turned up a mix of new finds in the heart of the French Quarter. Discoveries behind St. Louis ...
... making landfall for a record fourth time as she trudged across the state's northern panhandle and took aim at points west including New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again confronted the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav ...
... Gustav slammed into the US Gulf Coast Monday, driving a surge of water to the lip of the levees protecting New Orleans officials said almost exactly three years after the city ...
Karl F. Seidman, senior lecturer in urban planning at MIT, writes in an op-ed that New Orleans "neighborhood viability should not be a condition to be proven by residents ...
Emergency workers hustled on Tuesday to revive a hurricane-battered New Orleans area nearly devoid of power and people, as evacuees waiting in far-away shelters clamored to return home.
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The aims of the study were to assess the medium-term post-Katrina mental and physical health of New Orleans residents and to determine the demographic, social and environmental ...
... . Besides eating at bagasse seams, the termites may have contributed to the destruction of the levees of New Orleans by digging networks of tunnels, which can cause "piping," sending water through the ...
Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine", two Tulane University professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a ...
The Army Corps of Engineers is mandated to provide New Orleans with an improved hurricane protection system by 2011. Virginia Tech geotechnical engineers are among the researchers analyzing the ...
Calling New Orleans "the canary in the global warming coal mine," two Tulane professors say the Crescent City must embrace unconventional thinking in order to recover in a sustainable way ...
... from Katrina, and offers advice for how to improve the hurricane-protection system in the New Orleans area.
Although some of the report's recommendations to enhance hurricane preparedness have ...
Levees and floodwalls surrounding New Orleans -- no matter how large or sturdy -- cannot provide absolute protection against overtopping or failure in extreme ...
New Orleans sits smack dab between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake
Pontchartrain, and when a hurricane comes rolling in, ... —will protect the 240,000
residents living in New Orleans, a high-risk flood area ...
(AP) -- Jury selection is under way in the civil trial over New Orleans' problem-plagued crime camera system.
