2005-09-22 04:00:00 PDT Galveston, Texas-- Hurricane Rita attained the strongest storm designation Wednesday as it barreled toward the Texas coastline, forcing the evacuation of as many as 1 ...

After operating out of a temporary animal shelter for almost 20 years, the Sulphur Animal Shelter now has a brand new home.

Hurricane Rita came ashore just three weeks after Hurricane Katrina, killing seven people directly and over a hundred more in the evacuation and in the storm's aftermath. Ten years later ...

HOUSTON – Eight years ago, Hurricane Rita threatened the Texas Gulf Coast, leading to the largest evacuation in U.S. history. Somewhere between 2.7 million and 3.7 million people evacuated the ...

NASA/UL Lafayette hosts free June 5-6 workshop on disaster response, geospatial data, and lessons learned from Hurricanes ...

Hurricane Rita reached Category 5 status late Wednesday as it inched its way west across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas. More than 1 million Texas and Louisiana residents reportedly are ...

Its staggeringly low minimum pressure of 895 mb ranked fourth-lowest on record, tying 2005’s Hurricane Rita. It boiled with tornadoes, 45 in all. And from its earliest embryonic stirrings in the ...