The bill, introduced by a freshman lawmaker from Plaquemines Parish, would require one of the flood agency's board members to have law enforcement experience.

Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans ... MR-GO's levees, which make up the easternmost length of the ring of hurricane ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, residents and city leaders reflect on the impact of demolishing New Orleans’ major ...

We hope this is just a one-year happenstance that we’re facing this year and we’ll see our friends and folks and comrades next year at our conference in Orlando,” one conference organizer said.

The city of New Orleans is still rebuilding and repairing homes that were damaged in the fallout from 2005's Hurricane Katrina ... water pumping stations, and levees that attempt to protect ...

This year will mark 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, which is one of the worst natural disasters in Louisiana history. I sat down with Lt. Gen. Honore who was put in ...

While New Orleans has grown by 150,000 residents ... urban disinvestment, and Hurricane Betsy and later Katrina. Many of the cities with the largest population declines are former manufacturing ...

Chandra Cormick and Keith Calhoun Hurricane Katrina was bearing down on New Orleans, so Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun packed their photography archive—thousands of slides, negatives and ...

New Orleans shines as the focus of Essence Magazine's May, June issue marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. The covers of the magazine serve as a heartfelt love letter to the Crescent City ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) âÄî Thousands of people who fled Hurricane Gustav forced the city to reluctantly ... that the government had turned a corner since its bungled response to Katrina. Faced with traffic ...

WE ARE TWO MONTHS AWAY FROM THE START OF HURRICANE SEASON, AND WORK IS ALREADY UNDERWAY TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE PREPARED. THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CONFERENCE KICKED OFF TODAY IN NEW ORLEANS ...