Gov. Jeff Landry has effectively removed an outspoken member of the New Orleans flood authority board — a move that could ...

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

Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and permanently changed life for thousands of people across the country. The hurricane caused billions of dollars of ...

Hurricane Katrina made landfall, will be a holiday for city workers for this year. It marks the 20th anniversary of Katrina. ...

Leaders in metro New Orleans say they have tested, checked and prepped everything they can for hurricane season, which starts Sunday. Why it matters: They say the lessons learned in Hurricane Katrina ...

NEW ORLEANS – As people search for words to describe New Orleans' recovery a decade after Hurricane Katrina, they sometimes use words verging on the Biblical - an economic and cultural ...

A $14 billion system of fortified levees and floodgates that were launched after Katrina successfully protected New Orleans from flooding. But at the same time, other infrastructure, including the ...

It finds New Orleans' population is back up to 350,000, roughly 80 percent of its pre-Katrina total. The poverty rate, at 23 percent, is the lowest since 1979, although still 10 points above the ...

JOHN MERROW: Hurricane Katrina raged through New Orleans on Aug. 28. One day later the levees broke and most of the city ended up under water. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and ...

The New Orleans Hurricane Katrina memorial in St. Patrick Cemetery No. 1, containing the bodies of 83 unidentified or unclaimed victims of the storm. (Shawn Fink / AFP/Getty Images) But the storm ...

New Orleans City Council Member James Gray looks out at what used to be called The Plaza before Hurricane Katrina. This was a multi-city-block shopping and commercial development in New Orleans East.