Officials are eager to start spending $2 billion dollars on infrastructure repairs, but say they’ll look for ways to build more resiliently in the coming years
Experts say New Orleans officials need to need to come to terms with what it means to be a coastal city.
A FEMA-funded program to repair roads is meant to put things back the way they were, not make them better.
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Until last week, the charter group handed out public transit vouchers. The school district said that wasn’t good enough.
By this summer, the island will be 1,000 acres larger. But the state will have to periodically rebuild it in the coming years.
The state's LA SAFE planning process is looking at ways to help communities adapt as the land around them sinks and the Gulf of Mexico rises.
Thousands of people may be forced to move inland in the coming years, according to the state.
People have not forgotten the corps' role in the city's flooding after Hurricane Katrina.
