What bills this legislative session affect New Orleans? Here’s what’s on the table.

A new drainage fee, a ban on homeless encampments, and more gubernatorial say over flood protection are among the...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s controversial bid to overhaul New Orleans flood agency heads to state lawmakers

Gov. Jeff Landry’s bid to overhaul the agency that maintains New Orleans’ hurricane protection levees and pumps will be...

Read BGR’s Statement on Flood Protection Authority Governance

The Bureau of Governmental Research issued the following statement today in support of the core framework for governance of...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s adviser is reshaping New Orleans levee authority. ‘Look at Elon Musk’

Behind the scenes, an unelected adviser to Gov. Jeff Landry is reshaping the regional levee authority that helps protect...

Here’s how Landry plans to reorganize the state’s coastal protection authority

This article is available to paid subscribers only at the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report website. To read BGR’s...

Landry administration reorganizing state’s coastal protection authority

The Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana conducted a web forum to discuss Gov. Jeff Landry administration’s initiative to...

Flood of suggestions

After focusing on “the frequent failures” of the city’s Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, Gov. Jeff Landry’s...

Change ahead for the S&WB? Here’s how a proposed law could reshape the troubled utility.

A New Orleans lawmaker late Tuesday submitted a bill that would make sweeping changes to how the Sewerage &...

New Orleans lawmaker files bill to take over S&WB, in line with Jeff Landry’s task force plan

A New Orleans-based lawmaker filed legislation late Tuesday to dismiss the local overseers of the beleaguered Sewerage and Water...

Sewerage & Water Board director says proposed state oversight of utility would be ‘disruptive’

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The man in charge of the day-to-day operations of the New Orleans Sewerage & Water...