NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Regina Girten saw the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Amongst devastation, their family home. She didn't hesitate to jump in to help neighbors & friends but always keeping in ...

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of the Gulf Coast, Greg Allen reflects on ...

We miss the point that the trauma is only within the body and the life of the individual person and what I’m worried about is the trauma has been experienced by the earth itself. There is a risk ...

FROM THEIR HOMES IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING HURRICANE KATRINA. A STAGGERING NUMBER OF PEOPLE TRAPPED IN A CITY THAT WAS SUBMERGED. AND FOR ONE TEENAGER WHO HAD TO BE SAVED FROM HER ATTIC, THE FLOODWATERS ...

Multiple tornadoes touched down in southern Louisiana Tuesday, downing power lines and ripping houses from their foundations as they passed through. Danielle Manning, a meteorologist with the National ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The group came to help rebuild a city still struggling to find its way more than six years after Hurricane Katrina, and to learn some disaster recovery lessons they can take back to ...

Twenty years ago, few people in New Orleans were paying attention to a tropical depression forming over the Bahamas. The Crescent City was enjoying a lazy summer in late August. But within days, that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Twenty years ago, just six weeks into my television career, ...

On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States as one of the largest and most destructive storms in U.S. history. In New Orleans, the storm surge broke numerous levees, ...

Water surrounds homes in the devastated Ninth Ward in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) On Aug. 29, 2005 — exactly ...

Journalist Trymaine Lee was a cub reporter at The Times-Picayune in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck, part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for its coverage of the storm. Even though he ...

'Katrina: Come Hell and High Water' details how the brutal hurricane "turned cataclysmic through human error and neglect" Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer ...