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 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pursuing a plan to replace the 100-year-old lock that connects the Mississippi River to ...

Jr., the New Orleans civic and business leader who as nominating committee chairperson single-handedly reshaped the region's two biggest levee authority boards following post-Hurricane Katrina ...

Hurricane Helene is its own disaster, but New Orleans knows its blueprint ... many of these images before. Hurricane Katrina ...

If those levees break, all of the water comes into New Orleans ... about the people of New Orleans starving to death in the streets—before going through Katrina, I didn’t think that something ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...

Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures forced us to rebuild ... For decades, the New Orleans economy and population had been steadily declining. As the oil industry moved away and ...

New Orleans just pulled a Mazda and a sofa out ... s Category 3-fueled storm surge broke New Orleans fragile levees. Katrina wrought more than $80 billion in destruction, but the worst damage ...

NEW ORLEANS - Facing a $10 million budget shortfall, the University of New Orleans has picked two new interim deans who will ...

While Katrina was 10 years ago, it's still the model for what could happen because the factors that made the storm so devastating are getting worse — sea levels are rising and as global ...