For Urban Treuil, there's no escaping the misery.
Plaquemines Parish's Billy Nungesser says controlled levee breaks will help alleviate flooding from Hurricane Isaac.
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, has felt the full force of Isaac. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports on rescue efforts.
Residents along the Gulf Coast continue to get pounded by heavy winds and unrelenting rain from Tropical Depression Isaac, an eerie reminder of Hurricane Katrina, which pummeled the Gulf Coast seven years ago.
CNN's team of reporters see flooding from heavy rainfall from an intense outer band from Hurricane Isaac.
As Tropical Storm Isaac churns toward the Gulf Coast, where it is forecast to hit as a Category 1 hurricane, states are taking measures to prepare for landfall.
A drought in Louisiana has lowered the Mississippi River, leaving its southern tip awash in saline from the Gulf of Mexico and prompting health officials in Plaquemines Parish to issue a drinking water advisory.
Tropical Storm Lee worked its way over southern Louisiana, drenching some coastal areas and flooding streets.
Lee weakened to a tropical depression late Sunday, the National Hurricane Center reported, but not before dumping vast amounts of rain and causing extensive flooding in Gulf Coast states.
A powerful spring storm packing hail, heavy rain and strong winds caused extensive damage just south of New Orleans, Tuesday evening, authorities said.
Several commercial fishing areas that were closed because of the BP oil spill had an "emergency reopening" Saturday, Louisiana officials said.
BP finished pouring cement down its crippled well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday in an operation known as a "static kill," completing the job earlier than expected.
CNN spends the day with the Plaquemines Parish president in New Orleans as he deals with the Gulf oil disaster.
It's 8 a.m. inside the third-floor war room of the government building in Plaquemines Parish, ground zero in the three-month battle against BP's mess.
This Fourth of July weekend New Orleans will be packed with nearly 300,000 people, as the National Education Association holds its annual convention, and folks from across the country descend on the Crescent City for three days of partying and concerts featuring Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Janet Jackson and Earth, Wind & Fire, all headliners at the 16th annual Essence Music Festival.
Frustration with the response to the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico boiled over Thursday as federal and local officials complained that it remains unclear who is in charge of the response.
Gulf Coast residents face a new worry with the beginning of hurricane season. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
When Billy Nungesser appears on the news, sweat-soaked and breathless, railing against BP and the government for failing to keep the oil in the Gulf of Mexico from reaching Louisiana's shores, the anguish on the politician's face is real.
The parish president said his knees got weak. The congressman said it was like a punch to the stomach, but that his constituents are resilient.
CNN's David Mattingly reports from Robert, Louisiana, about the next option after the 'top kill' procedure failed.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser on Wednesday blasted the federal government's response to the oil spill that has fouled more than 100 miles of the state's coast, and called for its point man to step aside.
Frustrations boiled over Tuesday as Louisiana residents hurting financially from the Gulf oil spill confronted BP, Coast Guard and environmental officials at a tense town hall meeting in Plaquemines Parish, where fishermen and tour boat captains have sat idle while thick crude invades the state's shorelines.
The Obama administration says patience is running out on getting an effective response to the Gulf Coast oil leak.
President Obama announces a bipartisan commission on the oil spill, and BP says next week for "top kill."
Frustrated Louisiana officials Sunday demanded the federal government approve their plans to dredge up walls of sand to protect delicate inland estuaries from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Gulf Coast states have seen drops in tourism linked to the BP oil spill in the Gulf, though it has not caused any beaches to close, tourism officials told CNN Wednesday.
Smaller towns that have yet to recover from Katrina find themselves emptying out as powerful winds start to kick in
Efforts to bolster a private New Orleans-area levee that had been in danger of failing because of Hurricane Gustav appeared to be working Monday night, the president of a parish said.
The oil spill that closed the Mississippi River at New Orleans is costing the U.S. economy $275 million a day, the head of that city's port authority told CNN.
The owner of the barge that spilled about 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel in the Mississippi River near New Orleans said Thursday the company was not to blame for the accident, but said it will be responsible for the cleanup.
Generally speaking, Foster Creppell is not out to change the system. His main gripe about corporate America is that not enough of it stays at Woodland Plantation, the antebellum mansion in Plaquemines Parish that he has transformed into an elegant country bed-and-breakfast. (You may know what Woodland looks like: Its portrait adorns the label of Southern Comfort liqueur.)
Everyone knew that Plaquemines Parish would be vulnerable if a powerful hurricane scored a direct hit. When Katrina made landfall in the Plaquemines town of Buras in August, all communication was cut off. It wasn't clear how bad the devastation was.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
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