BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

Twenty years later, investor-driven rebuilding—which makes it almost impossible for marginalized residents to return—has ...

In terms of strength, the most destructive hurricanes have been Katrina and Mitch, per BBC. While in terms of death toll, the deadliest has been the Galveston hurricane of 1900, since it caused ...

Adolph Bynum, 86, the founder of Bynum's Pharmacy, at his home in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, La., on Tuesday ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday with memorials, performances and a parade to honor those who were affected.

Everybody loves New Orleans. It’s only the fifty-fourth-largest city in the United States—down from fifth-largest two hundred years ago—but it occupies a much larger place in the national mind than, ...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn ...

New Orleans native Alnitia Woods lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. 20 years later, she has rebuilt her life in DeSoto County.