Analyzes the financial impact of Hurricane Katrina, including insurance claims, GDP loss, and the long-term shift in regional economic structure.

At the ceremony, speakers said preserving Katrina’s history is a responsibility that must be passed to the next generation.

A beloved New Orleans hospital building that has lain dormant and blighted since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is poised for redevelopment as a Tulane University medical research hub. (AP Video/S ...

Twenty-one years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Gulf Coast continue to reflect on the storm’s devastating toll and lasting legacy.

Kurt Knutsson shares seven emergency preparedness lessons from surviving Hurricane Katrina inside a New Orleans hotel as conditions turned desperate.

In Katrina’s immediate aftermath, New Orleans looked like a city whose hospitality industry might never recover. About 70% of hotel rooms were shuttered, power outages dragged on for weeks, and the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the chaos of Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital in New Orleans became a scene of heartbreak and heroism, with doctors scrambling to keep patients alive without power or ...

New Orleans and state leaders came together Monday to announce events planned to commemorate 21 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The storm was a moment that forever changed southeast ...

View of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Photo: Commander Mark Moran, of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, and Lt. Phil Eastman and Lt. Dave Demers, of the NOAA Aircraft ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina’s 21st anniversary, an event was held in Downtown New Orleans commemorating the occasion. The group New Orleans Katrina Commemoration ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty-one years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, community leaders gathered Friday at a sacred site holding the ...