Before the images of a crowded and toxic Superdome and desperate survivors waving down help from rooftops, entertainers the ...

We found the mahogany table misshapen, but upright. Sitting on top of it was a glass-domed cake stand with part of a birthday ...

The award-winning artist had to evacuate from New Orleans and watch terror unfold on his hometown from a hotel room. But Jon ...

CNN general assignment correspondent based in Washington, D.C., specializing in aviation reporting and serving as back-up correspondent at the Pentagon and the White House. Most recently, Koch has ...

A man killed by New Orleans police in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was shot in the back, according to an autopsy report CNN obtained. That autopsy finding seems to raise questions about the ...

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Most people don’t expect Mimi Hymel to remember Hurricane Katrina. After all, she was only 3 when the Category 5 storm slammed into her Louisiana home in 2005 ...

On August 28, 2005, the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, Shelton Alexander stood outside his home in St. Bernard Parish, a couple of miles away from Downtown New Orleans, as a storm warning ...

In the gripping five-part “Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time,” premiering over two subsequent nights beginning Sunday at 8 p.m. on National Geographic (all episodes stream on Hulu and ...

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Most people don’t expect Mimi Hymel to remember Hurricane Katrina. After all, she was only 3 when the Category 5 storm slammed into her Louisiana home in 2005 ...

It’s easy enough to schedule a 20th-anniversary commemoration of a cataclysmic event like Hurricane Katrina, and impossible not to make such an observance a lesson, a caution and, in this case ...