After Congress sent Jefferson Parish $64.5 million as part of the pandemic-driven American Rescue Plan Act, Parish Council members began penciling in brick-and-mortar projects for their constituents.

For several years in Houston, an unfortunate controversy has swirled around open drainage ditches. The underlying idea is that roadside drainage ditches don’t work — or at least, not as well as ...

Last Thursday, David Espinoza got in his 2011 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck to survey the damage in his neighborhood from Hurricane Beryl, which killed 11 people and dumped more than a foot of rain in ...