NEW ORLEANS -- Just in the past week, elevation crews have dropped two more houses they were trying to lift in the metro area. Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding have led to hundreds ...

NEW ORLEANS -- On one block of Vicksburg Street in the Lakeview neighborhood, Al Petrie's and his investors’ four houses stand as markers of the stages of this city's recovery in the years after ...

WHY: Whether the house is built on a slab or a few feet above ground on piers, homeowners typically elevate them to reduce the risk of flooding. Elevation is also a way for homeowners to decrease ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will offer reimbursement to property owners who have already started, or completed, raising their buildings in an effort to prevent flooding from another ...

PETERSBURG – Township committee introduced an ordinance that would exempt homeowners, who are raising their houses to comply with new flood hazard requirements, from having to get zoning variances if ...