Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm that made landfall off the Louisiana coast on August 29, 2005, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing destruction and ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina impacted New Orleans and changed the world’s view on natural disasters and recovery. The artist Dapper Bruce Lafitte remembers New ...

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - From the Lower Ninth Ward to the Superdome, New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina, paying tribute to its victims and homage to the ...

Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans ...

The disaster recovery nonprofit SBP began as a philanthropic effort to rebuild homes in St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina. Nearly 20 years later, the 100-person organization has expanded ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — “Surviving Katrina” is currently on display at The Tate Etienne and Prevost Center. It’s an exhibition by the artist Ted Ellis that shows the fortitude of New Orleans 20 years ...

The Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research is an interdisciplinary research center in which environmental engineers, environmental health scientists, philosophers, and other groups work ...

Twenty years after Katrina, the cultural workers who kept New Orleans alive are demanding not to be pushed aside. Some people celebrated renewal. Some mourned loss. Still others just hoped for the ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, displacing students across the city, Cabrini High School students were able to walk down the aisle for a special graduation ceremony. The ...

Percy “Master P” Miller is bringing new life to the University of New Orleans basketball, starting with Lakefront Arena. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed the arena’s original jumbotron, ...

A new study found sea levels in New Orleans have reached the “point of no return.” ...