“God wanted me to be there,” Shelton Alexander says. "He wanted me to tell this story” Angelina Liu is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in The Daily Texan and The Austin ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state's first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by Hurricane Katrina, has died.

HOUSTON — 20 years later and I’ll never forget when the first buses from New Orleans rolled into Houston. I stood at the Astrodome as families stepped off. I hugged survivors, held back tears, helped ...

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm that made landfall off the Louisiana coast on August 29, 2005, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing destruction and ...

The environmental destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina can be measured -- at least partly -- by the volume of material that has been cleaned up since the storm hit the Gulf Coast more than three ...

It's been nearly 15 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the American southeast, but New York Times journalist Sheri Fink sees echoes of that disaster in today's COVID-19 outbreak. Fink won a ...

Recent decades have brought a series of powerful and destructive hurricanes that have reshaped communities across the United ...

Ms. Doris Voitier announced her plans to retire next month after decades with the school system, which she notably shepherded through Hurricane Katrina.

When Kyle Busch stood in Victory Lane at Auto Club Speedway on September 4, 2005, he had just become the youngest winner in ...

Hidden deep in New Orleans sits one of America’s most haunting abandoned locations — Six Flags New Orleans, a massive theme ...