The New Orleans city council declared on Thursday, June 12 that Aug. 29, the date Hurricane Katrina made landfall, will be a ...

Gov. Jeff Landry’s push to take control of New Orleans’ flood board has been scaled back and a revised bill keeps the ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and disrupted its school system, the research shows positive academic ...

Coffee shops and independent bookstores are also some of the best places to learn about a city’s local activities. Backatown ...

June 1 is the start of hurricane season, and forecasters predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin this ...

Turner Publishing announces a special anniversary edition of Author Sandy Rosenthal's award-winning recounting of the 2005 hurricane and subsequent levee failures, Words Whispered in Water: Why Levees ...

The only way to pinpoint the lowest center of pressure inside a hurricane is to put a manned aircraft in it. Right in the ...

Advances in forecast models, satellite data, and radar technology have transformed hurricane predictions since 2005.

Weather experts urge Southeast Louisiana residents to prepare for intensifying hurricanes, emphasizing the importance of ...

New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...

Weathering and working through Hurricane Katrina sharpened me as a parent and a professional. Yet it's nothing compared to what evacuees faced.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst disasters in U.S. history, New Orleans launched the most ambitious school ...