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

Flood-ravaged and destroyed, the Lower Ninth Ward looked more like a war zone than a neighborhood in the days following ...

A Landry-appointed levee board member will step down after questions over whether the governor sidestepped post-Katrina ...

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

At the Flooded House Museum and levee exhibit in Gentilly, the history of Hurricane Katrina is on full display.

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Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina caused devastating effects for Louisianans when the levees meant to protect residents ...

August 29, 2005—was a full-tilt catastrophe, even after it weakened from a Category 5 storm and plowed ashore near New ...

New Orleans' battered, 300-year-old history has been marked by fire, pestilence and storm, but Katrina was unprecedented in ...

Nearly 1,400 people died after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the deaths were in New ...

New Orleans’ arts community, particularly the visual arts, has elevated itself beyond what had been previously achieved ...

I became the face often attached to the failure to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina. But the failures were shared at ...