Surviving the storm gave Daniel Aldrich a new focus: understanding how disasters shape the politics of a place.

Katrina and Rita were just a couple of memorable hurricanes that have struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Francine will soon be ...

Local residents who evacuated during Hurricane Katrina talk about their experiences and how things have changed.

After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, 540 oil spills were documented ... not the storm,” Ms. Le Blanc said. “There’s a storm coming?” Ms. Seitlin asked.

Jay Grymes, the Louisiana state climatologist, said in a news conference that the weather forecast, which doesn't anticipate any heavy rain in the coming ... from Katrina was followed by storm ...

Hurricane Francine has strengthened into a Category 2 storm and is expected to make landfall in the coming hours in Louisiana. Forecasters have raised threats of potentially deadly storm surge, ...

‘why are these people coming here?’” A message board for Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The arena hosted More than 16,000 storm victims arrived at the arena ...

When a hurricane or tropical storm looms in the Gulf ... Cantore famously rode out Hurricane Katrina inside the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, and he's known to chat with residents ...

But Katrina also had a profound impact on the cities where evacuees fled. In Houston, 300 miles to the west, more than 200,000 victims arrived after the storm, many coming in on evacuation buses ...

Arizona State: After Hurricane Katrina ravaged south Louisiana following its landfall on Aug. 29, LSU’s campus became a evacuation center for victims of the storm coming from the New Orleans area.