In the wetlands of coastal southeast Louisiana, conservation groups are wrapping up a four-year project to plant 30,000 trees.

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina evacuee. He was executed for gunning ...

Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern U.S. history — but nature wasn’t the only cause. The storm was tracked for days, simulations predicted catastrophic flooding, and ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A new plan for pumping water out of the Lake Seward basin has some residents feeling grateful and others feeling underwhelmed. The basin, which was once a lake, filled with ...

Throughout 2025, our city marked the poignant milestone of the 20th year of rebuilding efforts following the historic and unprecedented devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the multiple levee ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's been eight years since Hurricane Harvey--eight years of a legal slog for Catherine Popovici and her family since their home flooded along the Barker Reservoir. "We were ...

Waveland, Mississippi, is home to the Ground Zero Hurricane Katrina Museum, the only permanent museum dedicated to archiving the aftermath of the 2005 storm’s impact on the Gulf Coast. Inside, photos ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas -- Montgomery County commissioners approved two extension requests Dec. 16 tied to disaster recovery grants used for buyout projects stemming from Hurricane Harvey and the ...

Shuang-Ye Wu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

When New Orleans native and entrepreneur Courtney Kelly was growing up, she dreamt of one day becoming a veterinarian. But when Hurricane Katrina ravaged her hometown, the storm altered the course of ...

The heat of summer is in the rearview mirror as California enters the wet part of the year. This also comes with an increased risk of flooding, especially for places like Sacramento which sits along ...