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 ...

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 ...

Al Petrie, 62, a native of New Orleans, stands recently near a few of the houses that he and investors built or renovated along one block on Vicksburg Street in Lakeview after Hurricane Katrina. One ...