Twenty years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. More than 1,300 lives were lost. It destroyed homes, displaced families, and overwhelmed many of the institutions that ...

Angela and Peter Becnel III got married in March 2025. The plan was to buy Peter’s grandfather’s multi-unit home in Mid-City and do some remodeling, since Peter owned a construction ...

Robin Roberts' upcoming special revisits the devastation of the Category 5 hurricane that killed nearly 1,400 people and destroyed communities, reflecting on the recovery two decades later.

Hurricane Katrina killed 1,392 people, including 520 direct deaths, 341 of which were in Louisiana, according to an update ...

This August marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated communities in the Southeastern United States. In the wake of ...

In our view, one of Katrina’s most important lessons is about social injustice. The disproportionate suffering in Black communities wasn’t a natural disaster but a predictable result of policies ...

Vera Triplett is concerned about the number of schools that have shut down in her city in the years since Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina exposed weaknesses in our nation's infrastructure, including a breakdown of telecommunications. Some of the ...

Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...

As the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches we take a look back at the resilience of the people in New ...

New Orleans took the brunt of the 2005 storm which swept in from the Gulf of Mexico and killed more than 1,800 people, ...

Upon the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, the NewsHour is looking back at some our coverage of what people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have done to clean up from the storm ...