Double parlors, shadow molding and other antebellum -style detailing suggest the Scotts' house was built around the Civil War ...

Robert Green guesses it was about 5 a.m. when the water first broke through. By 5:10, he, his mother, brother, cousin, and three grandchildren, ages 4, 3, and 2, were on the roof. Within five minutes, ...

As New Orleans prepared for Hurricane Francine's Louisiana landfall last week, the city's top emergency official called the ...

A coalition of environmental groups is pushing 18 projects to protect Gulf Coast communities from land loss and storm damage ...

There were birds everywhere—hundreds of egrets and ibis, and laughing gulls overhead—and one bird that you can't typically ...

New Orleans faces a week of typical subtropical weather with sunshine, seasonal showers, and mild temperatures.

Hurricane Francine rapidly strengthened before making landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, knocking out power for hundreds of ...

Former New Orleans Saints safety and current ALS activist Steve Gleason was hospitalized in New Orleans on Wednesday, the ...

The danger of "life-threatening" coastal storm surge remained a major concern from the sixth and strongest storm of the ...

Growing up in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans ... after a hard rain, because the water went up to our porch,” Ferdinand says. Her family survived Hurricane Betsy, a Category 4 hurricane that ...

When Curtis Doucette decided to purchase and restore the historic Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, the developer was just as ...

Thirty-two years ago, a tropical storm wandered over an area of superheated water and exploded into a monster Category 5 hurricane with 174 mph winds. Compact and powerful, Hurricane Andrew slammed ...