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

Federal agents detained at least 15 immigrant workers at the construction site of a major New Orleans flood control project ...

In honor of the return and burial of 19 African American skulls used in racist research, New Orleans hosted a multifaith ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

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

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

After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built a $15 billion levee and surge protection system ...

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

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

The New Orleans Levee Protection System was designed to protect the city from massive flooding. The levee system was born out ...

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

The system was born out of the devastation left behind by Hurricane Besty, and then destroyed and redone following Hurricane Katrina.