Not too very long ago, before the storm of a lifetime, there was a quaint section of town just beyond the levee, curiously ...

The Army Corps controls the design and operational procedures of flood reduction, so it doesn’t matter whether the governor ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

Officials are inspecting the levees daily in New Orleans metro as the Mississippi River continues to rise. Why it matters: ...

Before long ... his searing HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke. What became apparent to Spike and me as we collaborated was that Katrina, in New Orleans anyway, was a man-made disaster.

He won awards for pioneering journalism on the hurricane vulnerability of New Orleans. Then Katrina hit and washed the awards ...

I’m very concerned about putting politics back into flood protection,” said board member Richard Duplantier. “There's no ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

And everything they like and love about New Orleans is just like it was before Katrina." ... I tell you this is really, really an exciting time to live here in the city. And the food is fantastic.

Russel Honoré in the latest "Faces of Katrina" report about what happened 20 years ago. Hot off a helicopter and riding into New Orleans ... situation after the levees broke, he knew he had ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.