Two decades is a long time. Long enough for a new generation to have grown up with no memory of that terrible day in 2005 ...

Sister Vera Butler (80), from Portmagee, Co Kerry, was living in New Orleans when the storm hit. Having joined the ...

Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans' education system forever, creating the first all-charter school district in the U.S.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed the face of education in New Orleans forever destroying the school system but for ...

In the summer of 2005, both the Saints and the then New Orleans Hornets seemingly had 1 ft out the door. Hornets owner George ...

United Way of Southeast Louisiana honored the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with an amplified day of service Saturday ...

Twenty years later, WDSU continues to tell stories of resilience, loss and rebirth. We have a lot of locals here at WDSU — people who were working here during the storm or living here. WDSU ...

New Orleans will mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina with official commemorative events, including memorials, cultural ...

Brandon Surtain scrolls through the photos on his iPhone, stopping at the snapshots taken in a studio — not the home studio ...

One hundred schools were put into a state-run district, and within a decade, the state closed all of them, replacing them ...

When Hurricane Katrina touched down near New Orleans 20 years ago on Aug. 29, 2005, I was just beginning my journey as a first-year medical student. I remember watching the footage of families ...