Ida battered Louisiana as a Category 4 with top winds of 150 mph, a tie for 5th strongest hurricane to ever hit the mainland U.S. LAPLACE, Louisiana -- Some families near New Orleans have been forced ...

We’ve learned a lot,” said State Rep. Jerome “Zee” Zeringue, R-Houma, who chairs a House panel on disaster recovery. “We ...

A remains of a house destroyed years ago by Hurricane Ida next to utility poles leaning over from a more recent storm, Hurricane Francine, along Highway 56 in Cocodrie.

This story is part of The Disaster Economy, a Grist series exploring the often chaotic, lucrative world of disaster response and recovery. It was produced by Grist and co-published with Verite News, ...