Come Hell and High Water exposes the reasons behind New Orleans' levee failures during Hurricane Katrina and the damage that ...

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans and notably the city’s low-income Lower Ninth Ward. The levees and floodwalls, primarily built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, failed to ...

The city’s $14 billion flood system faces new threats from climate change, land subsidence, and Trump budget cuts.

Hurricane Katrina survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf ...

A poll published this week by Resilience New Orleans, an Entergy-backed advocacy group that supports investments in city ...

Most who have stayed are ardent defenders of the city’s culture, of which resiliency fatigue is quickly becoming a feature.

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.

“Our city is in what is often described locally as a bowl,” said James Karst, director of communications for the Coalition to ...

Twenty years ago today Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore in Louisiana as one of the costliest and deadliest U.S. disasters.

Two decades after one of the most devastating disasters in U.S. history, the city of New Orleans proves why they are more ...

New Orleans residents reflect on rebuilding their lives 20 years after Hurricane Katrina.

The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans says testing at its power complex will resume Wednesday. Limited pump testing ...