Before the storm, the city tried to engineer water out of sight. But, David Waggonner says, “you can’t live with water if you ...

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, ...

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 ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

Soon after Hurricane Katrina had passed, but long before the flood waters had receded, came the deluge of do-gooders. The rebuilding of metropolitan New Orleans involved around 500 new nonprofits (in ...

Baylor College of Medicine’s Office of Community Engagement and Humanities Expression and Arts Lab (HEAL) will host “An ...

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 ...

Engineer-turned-writer and WeLoveUs.Shop partner Courtney Kelly is using her children's books to inspire the next generation of STEM-focused professionals.

New Orleans experts warn that the “Swamp Sweep” Border Patrol deployment risks triggering widespread child and community ...

There's a reason Hurricane Katrina conjures up thoughts of New Orleans for so many. The city was decimated by the storm and TV news crews captured the devastation for all to see. Today, some ...

A little more than one year after opening the Leah Chase School, New Orleans’ first traditional public school in nearly two decades, school board members have a choice: invest more ...