As we bid goodbye to the 20th anniversary of the storm that changed New Orleans forever, former U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu says ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

As 2025 draws to a close, we revisit the stories of four people who now call Colorado home. They have a common bond: They all ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage along the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, and it is still categorized as the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. modern times. Looking back at that ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history. Ten days later, after ...

“What makes a disaster a tragedy? A tragedy is when we fail to do what we should be doing.” This is how New Orleans community organizer Malik Rahim prefaces the calm before “Hurricane Katrina: Race ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

For the next 12 months, WDSU will feature stories on the people who played key roles before, during and after the storm.