WASHINGTON – The Bush administration kept its Hurricane Katrina response and its public relations campaign in overdrive on Sunday, even as first confirmation came from Washington of a dreaded ...

This is in reference to Ray Nagin’s complaint about how long it took to get help after Katrina. He said that an aircraft carrier can go halfway around the world in three days, but it took seven days ...

Federal officials expressed sympathy but quickly defended themselves, saying they, too, were overwhelmed by the catastrophe that hit the Gulf Coast region on Monday. Nagin's interview Thursday night ...

When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast of Louisiana in the early Monday-morning hours of Aug. 29, 2005, it shattered everything in its path: Homes. Trees. Weather records. The Category 4 ...

Hurricane Katrina is a national disaster in more ways than one, and it's not just gasoline prices and commercial transport. Last Thursday, as the floodwaters were rising fast in New Orleans, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Overwhelmed volunteers, inflexible attitudes and inadequate anti-fraud measures are among the many shortcomings acknowledged by the American Red Cross in a candid and comprehensive new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put ...