Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans ... MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.

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

In the days since a U.S. Army veteran drove a truck into dozens of New Year's Day revelers, normalcy has begun to return to a ...

Passenger rail’s return, big changes on the sports scene and a significant storm anniversary will be among the biggest South Mississippi stories of 2025.

The levees are a system of flood walls, built to protect low-lying New Orleans, and strengthened after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. "If you're going to leave you need to do that now," Ms Cantrell said.

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 ...

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than $100 billion of damage. In New Orleans, the failure of the levee system resulted ...

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 50 ...

The city of New Orleans has a long history of overcoming tragedy, and it will again in the wake of a deadly attack. This is a ...

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 ...