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 ...

As Hurricane Katrina‘s 20th anniversary approaches in August 2025, its devastating impact on New Orleans remains deeply felt. The storm, which struck the Crescent City on August 29, 2005 ...

Norcross explained that the massive amounts of water flowing through the numerous canals within the city during Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005, were just too much for the flood walls to handle.

High school football team unites Katrina-ravaged community, leading South Plaquemines to state championship victory.

When Hurricane Katrina struck, Leah Chase was the chef and co-owner of the legendary New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase, a landmark in the city’s oldest black neighborhood. Chase saw her ...

It has been three years since Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people, scouring Mississippi beach towns down to bare sand and rupturing the protective levees around New Orleans ...

New numbers from FEMA paint a picture of Florida’s hurricane recovery progress after an active season and three major landfalls. This late-season tropical threat is about to enter the Gulf of ...

How mind-boggling to think that so much Hurricane Katrina history is contained in a ribbed fragment of concrete. I was a Tulane University history professor that August of 2005, when the hurricane ...

IN AUGUST 2005, AND CITY AND STATE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WAS FAR DIFFERENT AS WELL. SO WHEN HURRICANE KATRINA HIT, THERE WAS THERE WAS NO PLAN. SO THERE WAS NO PLAN TO EVACUATE THE CITY LIKE WE ...

Providing emergency grants to partner groups on the ground. "Hurricane Katrina raised awareness about the importance of the human-animal bond in disaster response worldwide," said Kitty Block ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Hurricane Katrina artifact display in Biloxi has been relocated from the Town Green to inside the Biloxi Visitors Center. City workers recently took apart the display ...

“Without the American taxpayer and the volunteers who came here, we wouldn’t have anything. Nothing,” said Chip McDermott, who served as mayor of Pass Christian after Hurricane Katrina.