Cameron McWhirter covers national affairs for The Wall Street Journal from Atlanta. Before joining the Journal, he reported ...

With Edwards warning that Ida is on course to become one of Louisiana's worst hurricanes since the 1850s, parallels have been drawn between the current storm and the devastating Katrina ...

(CNN)-- A Louisiana judge has ordered prosecutors to release their files on the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the days following Hurricane Katrina, finding that no related legal ...