CNN's Homeland Security Correspondent. Since the terror attacks of September 11th she has covered a broad array of terrorism, ...

President Bush has tapped homeland security adviser Frances Townsend to lead an internal inquiry into the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, but leading Democrats renewed calls for an ...

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asked President Bush to declare an emergency for her state Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Rita's arrival somewhere on the Gulf Coast. Earlier, Blanco declared a state of ...

With hurricane season officially underway, worries are mounting around whether President Trump’s cuts to the federal government have endangered the nation’s disaster response. The concern is ...

The StormTracker Team at Louisiana First News has everything you need to know for hurricane preparedness. On the “Ahead of ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ... in their White population after 2005, while some Black neighborhoods on lower ground, which were hardest hit by Katrina, saw Black population increases.

Storm surge has accounted for about half of all the deaths in hurricanes since 1970, according to the National Hurricane Center. It caused most of the 1,800 deaths in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

“We’re ready here at NOAA,” said Ken Graham, director of the National Weather Service, during a news briefing held in Gretna, to mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. “Are you?” NOAA based its ...

According to NOAA, for all United States hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina (2005, $201.3 billion) is the costliest storm on record. Hurricane Harvey (2017, $160.0 billion) ranks second, Hurricane Ian ...