Lawmakers question the levee district police chief’s contract as the state attorney general reviews an investigative report.

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.

While New York City leads in terms of the absolute number of people threatened by flood, more than 98 percent of New Orleans’ ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

East of New Orleans, uniformed employees mill about the Lake Borgne Surge Barrier on the Intracoastal Waterway, making sure everything is working correctly. Giant flood walls made out of concrete and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn ...

NEW ORLEANS AP - A coastal geologist testified Monday that he warned the Army Corps of engineers decades ago about the dangers of the shipping channel that funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge ...

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water is about so much more than the flood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twenty years ago this ...

This month marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina carved its name into the history books as one of the deadliest and most devastating natural disasters in American history. 20 Years Later: Remembering ...