Gov. Jeff Landry has effectively removed an outspoken member of the New Orleans flood authority board — a move that could ...

The New Orleans city council declared on Thursday, June 12 that Aug. 29, the date Hurricane Katrina made landfall, will be a ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and disrupted its school system, the research shows positive academic ...

June 1 is the start of hurricane season, and forecasters predict above-normal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin this ...

Leaders in metro New Orleans say they have tested, checked and prepped everything they can for hurricane season, which starts Sunday. Why it matters: They say the lessons learned in Hurricane Katrina ...

The Two Mississippi Museums are hosting an exhibit to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting the ...

Turner Publishing announces a special anniversary edition of Author Sandy Rosenthal's award-winning recounting of the 2005 hurricane and subsequent levee failures, Words Whispered in Water: Why Levees ...

Coffee shops and independent bookstores are also some of the best places to learn about a city’s local activities. Backatown ...

Weather experts urge Southeast Louisiana residents to prepare for intensifying hurricanes, emphasizing the importance of ...

The anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is not only New Orleans’s burden to bear. There is a responsibility for people to interrogate their relationship to the city—and unpack and unlearn their ...

New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the federal government built a nearly $15 billion ...