Twenty years ago, few people in New Orleans were paying attention to a tropical depression forming over the Bahamas. The Crescent City was enjoying a lazy summer in late August. But within days, that ...

Today, Nigel Tapp is a 911 operator and high school marching band drumming instructor. But in 2005, he was 4 years old, and told he had to evacuate because of Hurricane Katrina. “I do remember not ...

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 ...

When Hurricane Katrina happened 20 years ago, 4-year-old Nigel Tapp evacuated from the Lower Ninth Ward to Montclair, New Jersey – the hometown of managing producer Alana Schreiber. When his pre-K ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans, Mercedes Toregano still remembers the brown suitcase she’d packed for what she’d expected to be a few days away. As the storm barreled ...

Twenty years later, Edward Buckles Jr. remembers Katrina − remembers at age 13 having his neighborhood swept away by the hurricane's raging waters, a defining moment of his life that would dislodge ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Hurricane Katrina brought the Magnolia State to its knees in 2005. The storm’s damage in the Pine Belt went far and beyond the scope that anybody could have ever imagined.

Hurricane Melissa is moving slowly. It reached the coast of Jamaica this afternoon after stalling out over the Caribbean Sea ...

Water stands in much of the area around downtown New Orleans seven days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Sept. 5, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, battering ...