A day Mississippi will never forget. On this date in 1969, Hurricane Camille made landfall near Waveland, Mississippi as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It remains one of the most powerful storms ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina ...

Hurricanes are some of nature's largest and most ferocious storms. Only a small handful of these sprawling systems ever reach Category 5 intensity. Many of these scale-topping hurricanes remained out ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the front-page story from the day after Hurricane Katrina struck the Mississippi Coast. Hurricane Katrina devastated South Mississippi on Monday with a force not seen since ...

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour recently reflected on the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the state on August 29, 2005, killing more than 230 people and leaving tens of ...

GULFPORT, Miss. — Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn’t want to live there. “People are always going to ...

Starting at six tomorrow morning, the traffic signals will be out so crews can connect the new traffic lights needed for the Popp's Ferry Road extension.

The 2009 film features archival interviews by meteorologists and emergency management officials This documentary from 2009 tells the story of the deadly and destructive storm from the days before ...

Hurricane Katrina caused $201.3B in damages, making it the costliest single U.S. disaster. Mississippi casinos moved to land after Katrina destroyed floating barge locations. Katrina spurred federal ...