Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

However, based on AccuWeather models, it appears it may not be so lucky in the final month of hurricane season. READ MORE ...

Three weeks after Hurricane Helene hit western ... can forget about the people of New Orleans starving to death in the streets—before going through Katrina, I didn’t think that something ...

Katrina makes landfall ... a direct route between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.) The MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane-protection levees ...

NEW ORLEANS (JTA) — One rainy afternoon earlier ... ruined by the 10 feet of water that filled the premises when Hurricane Katrina triggered massive flooding a decade ago this month.

Contractors are expected to start demolishing the former Six Flags' rides and attractions next month in New Orleans ...

A veteran reporter who covered Hurricane ... weather for New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune since 1984, and was part of a team who won a Pulitzer prize for their Katrina coverage.

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than $100 billion of damage. In New Orleans, the failure of the levee system resulted ...

Before Hurricane Katrina hit her newly adopted city of New Orleans in 2005 ... set the journalism professor on a wildly different path. Now a self-described “bird evangelist,” O’Kane ...

More than 6,500 prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers are vulnerable to environmental disasters nationwide.

Miles Gordon Stevens III, a commanding figure in New Orleans tourism who ran the ... took a beating after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005. Because visitors weren’t coming, Stevens had ...