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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...