NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans City Council had plenty of questions for the Department of Public Works when it came to cleaning catch basins and repairing street lights. Unfortunately, many of those ...

Roughly 7.2 million pounds of debris were removed from clogged city catch basins across the city during a four-month emergency cleaning program, including more than 93,000 pounds of Mardi Gras beads.

>> BOTTOM LINE, WHAT WE ARE LEARNING FROM THE REPORT IS THAT THERE IS STILL AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE WHEN IT COMES TO CATCH BASINS. THE IG REPORT RELEASED THIS MORNING FOCUSES ON THE EMERGENCY ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Rudolph Dupart tried for years to get the city to fix a catch basin near his 7th Ward home. The repairs were finally made -- but only after police hauled a dead body out of it a few ...