In 2013 the Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office charged Judith Weatherly, the owner of a Marrero construction company, with pocketing thousands of dollars meant for post-Katrina home elevation ...

The embattled owner of a home elevation company that had halted or failed to start work on about 20 jobs it had pending on flooded houses in Houston, saying his company was in financial distress, has ...

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Louisiana officials announced today that they will let applicants for a federal home-elevation grant program collect as much as $100,000 for raising their houses above base flood levels, rather than ...

When flood waters come, as they frequently have been in Southeast Texas over the past decade, it often leaves homeowners to decide whether to move up or move out. Fortunately, funds from the Federal ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates a proposed plan to elevate or floodproof nearly 3,300 homes, businesses and other buildings in the Amite River Basin would take 10 years to complete and ...

Documents certifying the height of Southeast Texas properties above sea level may be as worthless as the homes flooded during Hurricane Ike. Elevation certificates, needed for new construction permits ...

An E&E News investigation reveals discrimination against people of color and low-income households. But alleged civil rights violations would be difficult to prove in court. Federal programs that have ...