A weak Hurricane Katrina already had hopscotched Florida’s southeast coast and waded into a very warm Gulf. Now, it was ...

The origin of the Peggy Martin rose baffles experts, but the plant withstood the storm after being underwater for weeks. Now, ...

“You’ve seen 20 years of progress taken away in six months,” Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator under former President Joe Biden, told CNN. “It’s like we’ve forgotten everything that we learned ...

The storm wasn’t the strongest hurricane to hit the United States, but it remains the costliest, and the recovery is still ongoing, as these documentaries show.

Come Hell and High Water, looks at the devastating effects of the 2005 Hurricane Katrina and the impact it left upon the survivors and the communities, after twenty year ...

Jeanne Meserve, who covered Hurricane Katrina for CNN 20 years ago, speaks with CNN’s Pamela Brown about the lessons from that disaster. She also discusses growing concerns about FEMA’s preparedness ...

The FEMA employees have not been alone in sounding the alarm. Mark Bove, a meteorologist for the German reinsurance company Munich Re, has warned that if a Katrina-like storm were to occur today, the ...

Lt. Gen. Honoré ordered troops to lower weapons, focusing on saving lives post-Katrina, changing the chaotic response.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday ...

National media outlets cast Hurricane Katrina survivors as looters and rapists, then ignored the racist violence their ...