New Orleans' Department of Public Works conducted its first in-house concrete pour for sidewalk repairs since Hurricane ...

Twenty years ago last week, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish, La., about 50 miles southeast of New Orleans. Thousands of people had evacuated in advance of the monster storm. But ...

After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans dismantled its public school system in a way no other American city had tried. Neighborhood zones disappeared. The elected school board was stripped of most ...

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, ...

Mayor Helena Moreno highlighted her efforts to speed up road and sidewalk maintenance in the city by bringing some repair ...

On the Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, the musical venue Preservation Hall preserves the city’s beloved traditions.

“Hello, Uncle Sam. You saw the people on the roof, on the bridge, and in the waters. News people called us refugees, but we’re the native sons and daughters of New Orleans. We are New Orleans. And no ...

"It took Hurricane Katrina to get my children in a good public school in Orleans Parish," Coleman said as he and his wife escorted their son and daughter into Benjamin Franklin Elementary. On Monday, ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina impacted New Orleans and changed the world’s view on natural disasters and recovery. The artist Dapper Bruce Lafitte remembers New ...

When Hurricane Katrina launched its assault on New Orleans in summer 2005, East Texans did the only thing we could – we helped. We welcomed evacuees. We made sure they had places to stay and had gas ...

The National Institutes of Health is backing doctoral student Jessica Smith’s commitment to improve access to specialty care, ...

HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one. "New Orleans barbers cut different," ...