hurricane katrina

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

As New Orleans recovers from Hurricane Ida, the Saints will be away from the Caesars Superdome. Heres the latest from Sean Payton on the evacuation.

The Champlain Islands of Vermont are closely watching the disaster from Hurricane Ida unfold in Louisiana, because of a sister city relationship with one community there. “You just really feel for people who are going through things like this,” said Joe Flynn, the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Transportation. Flynn was a fire chief in Grand Isle County when…

People in Vermont’s Grand Isle were thinking of their sister city with the same name in Louisiana as it was struck by Hurricane Ida.

Ida made landfall Sunday as a Category 4 storm, bringing with it strong winds, infrastructure damage and flooding.

Hurricane Ida has blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S. as it rushed toward New Orleans and one of the nation’s most important industrial corridors.

It’s been 16 years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing at least 1,836 people and demolishing homes, hospitals, schools, roads and any semblance of what had existed before.

We remember the scenes of devastation when New Orleans’ levees were breached during Hurricane Katrina — contributing to the deaths of more than 1,800 people. But many don’t realize that other levee systems, protecting 20 million Americans across the country, are also at risk of failing due to age and the worsening effects of climate change. One of the systems...

As the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall approaches, New Orleans’ Black community is again being pummeled by disaster

As portions of Texas and New Orleans begin their slow recovery from facing the fury of Hurricane Laura, it was exactly 15 years ago that New Orleans bore the full onslaught of a hurricane so completely devastating that its name has been retired by the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization, never to be used for an Atlantic storm again – Katrina.

In 2005, New Orleans bore the full onslaught of Hurricane Katrina – a storm so completely devastating that its name has been retired by the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization.

It’s been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing at least 1,836 people and demolishing homes, hospitals, schools, roads and any semblance of what had existed before. Scroll through these images to see some of what has been rebuilt in the decade since the storm.