Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Aug. 19, 2005, a tropical wave formed in the Caribbean, one of many that hurricane season. But this one would evolve into one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a risk communicator focused on the impact of weather on business. Twenty years ago, just six weeks into my television career, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Netflix has released a new three-part documentary, Katrina: Come Hell and High Water, timed to the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The series, produced with Spike Lee ...

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Forecasters rarely use language this stark. But on August 28, 2005, the National Weather Service’s New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued one of the most ominous hurricane ...

Driving into New Orleans two weeks after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Lori Peek was overcome with sorrow. Trees were flattened for miles. Water marks up to 20 feet high blackened apartment ...

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region are marking the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which occurred on Aug. 29, 2005. The historic predominantly Black community of the Lower 9th Ward held ...

Katrina claimed the lives of at least 1,300 people across the Gulf Coast. Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating ...