The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

I’m very concerned about putting politics back into flood protection,” said board member Richard Duplantier. “There's no ...

We hope this is just a one-year happenstance that we’re facing this year and we’ll see our friends and folks and comrades ...

We're less than 50 days out from the official start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and first responders and ...

Delta Flood Risk by the Numbers: The Delta region faces a greater flood risk than New Orleans did before Hurricane Katrina, and in Stockton alone, over 90 percent of properties are at risk during a ...

What happened to New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, when three levees broke and the city flooded, is ...

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Massive storm surges overloaded about 50 levees across the New Orleans area, causing them to fail. Water flooded 80% of the city ...

BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HURRICANE KATRINA, I TELL THE STORY FROM THE WAY ... told him to take charge of a chaotic situation after the levees broke, he knew he had no time to waste.