The abandoned Six Flags theme park in New Orleans will finally be demolished nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina trashed ...

More than a decade later, have the lessons of Katrina been learned? New Orleans and the surrounding area were evacuated days before Katrina made landfall, with about 1 million people - nearly 80% ...

In a sense, Beth Israel is emblematic of how New Orleans’ small Jewish community recovered from Katrina, rebuilding from the ground up in the face of colossal property damage and population decline.

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...

It has often been said that what happened to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina was a man-made disaster. A new book identifies former Mayor Ray Nagin as one of those men. “Katrina ...

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than $100 billion of damage. In New Orleans, the failure of the levee system resulted ...

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 ...

I cried. Nobody heard me,” she said., As many as 12 000 people, many of them Hurricane Katrina survivors, jammed the New Orleans Arena late on Wednesday for the premiere of filmmaker Spike Lee ...