This story, headlined "Beating back the sea," was originally published Nov. 13, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th ...

No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound ...

Katrina made landfall in South Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, then strengthened to Category 5 in the Gulf of Mexico.

The destruction that Katrina inflicted on the region led to a complete rethinking of how levees and floodwalls should be ...

Hurricane Katrina exposed major gaps in federal disaster response and prompted reforms. Now, FEMA is at another crossroads ...

Mary Landrieu was one of Louisiana’s U.S. senators when Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. The Democrat fought to get ...

Catastrophic damage, devastating loss, and life-changing for thousands of people. Hurricane Katrina- one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history- made landfall 20 years ago.

As we prepare to mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, one Acadiana first responder is looking ...

Dauphin Island has been shrinking and is now facing a dire existential crisis. It will take millions of dollars from several ...

Dire warnings are coming from Florida Democrats who insist that FEMA may not be up to snuff if a major hurricane were to hit.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever. The school system was utterly ...

Houstonians had been through many storms, but hurricanes didn't scare us. Hurricane Katrina changed that as we watched ...