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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the five years since Superstorm Sandy pounded and eviscerated many homes along the Jersey shoreline, well over $300 million of the $1.34 billion in federal funds allocated by New Jersey for Sandy ...

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 ...

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 ...