There are several lessons in post-disaster recovery planning that can be derived from our experience in New Orleans—lessons ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

A fourth board member at the New Orleans area levee authority resigned on Thursday, escalating the fallout over controversial ...

New Orleans' former Six Flags theme park ... Six Flags took over the lease, but then Hurricane Katrina struck, flooding the ...

Jeff Landry is leading a push to upend a key post-Katrina reform at the New Orleans area's levee authorities ... that protect the city from storm surge flooding. Now, Shane Guidry, who is not ...

New Orleans is located along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. It’s one of the most historic and beautiful cities in the US ...

August 29: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on the Louisiana coast. Levees are breached in New Orleans, flooding portions of the city. August 30: Large parts of New Orleans are flooded as ...

Eight years ago, FEMA flew Jackie Clark out of New Orleans in the wake of ... when storm-surge flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina devastated her city and forced the evacuation of ...

Three members of the board that oversees the authority resigned Monday. The departing commissioners include Roy Arrigo, ...

Orleans Parish lost roughly 200,000 trees due to Hurricane Katrina, Burley said. Now, it's SOUL's mission to restore its tree ...

Bingler was part of the team that helped with recovery after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. He spoke to a group of Western North Carolina residents at ArtSpace Charter School March 6 as part ...

While Katrina was 10 years ago, it's still the model for what could happen because the factors that made the storm so devastating are getting worse — sea levels are rising and as global ...