The research comes nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Swaggart died at the age of 90 in Baton Rouge, LA—two weeks after his son, Donnie, revealed he was in the hospital.

In areas such as New Orleans East, Kenner, and the West Bank, the study found that some levees are sinking at a rate of about an inch per year, which is faster than the rate of sea-level rise. That ...