It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

As the humanitarian crisis recedes, financial ruin will step up to threaten many of Hurricane Katrina's victims, especially those whose homes are flooded. Flood insurance is not included in standard ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are marking the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which occurred on Aug. 29, 2005. The historic predominantly Black community of the Lower 9th Ward held ...

GULFPORT, Miss. -- Like other Gulf Coast cities after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Gulfport required residents to build at higher elevations and enforced a stronger building code. But most residents near ...