This week, as New Orleans commemorates those lost to Katrina and celebrates the city's revival since then, its residents take some comfort that their flood protections are far better than the ones ...

Katrina caused over 1,800 deaths and $100 billion in damage. New Orleans was particularly hit hard due to flooding. The hurricane’s 19-foot storm surge broke through the city’s flood walls and ...

As the 2025 hurricane season approaches, New Orleans leaders reflect on Katrina’s legacy, highlight major storm protection ...

Gary Rivlin, a former New York Times reporter, penned “Katrina: After the Flood.” In 2013, Nagin became the first New Orleans mayor indicted for crimes committed in office. The one thing ...

Leaders in metro New Orleans say they have tested, checked and prepped everything they can for hurricane season, which starts ...

In the aftermath of one of history’s biggest engineering failures -- the breaching of levees during Hurricane Katrina -- the ...

NEW ORLEANS – Fifteen years ago this week, a Coast Guard helicopter pulled Webster Rainy from his niece's rooftop in the Lower 9th Ward as floodwaters swallowed his neighbors in the wake of ...

Click here Editor's note: It's been nearly 10 years since I first visualized Hurricane Katrina's flooding throughout the New Orleans metro area in animated graphic form. The updated version above ...

With those disasters in mind, the Federal Emergency Management Agency made a big change to its Local Mitigation Planning Policy Guide in 2023. The agency began encouraging cities, towns and counties ...

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually ... arm of the Industrial Canal flood Orleans East. Later, around 10 a.m ...

Following the Katrina reforms, two agencies have been charged with overseeing flood protections in the New Orleans area, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and -West.