This week brings a somber anniversary for the Gulf Coast: It was on August 29, 2005, that Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. The storm wasn’t the strongest hurricane ...

Natural disasters have always been a compelling angle for movies, shows, and documentaries to explore. These productions explore threats that seemingly come out of nowhere, devastate whole communities ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Former Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul (2018-2024) sat down with renowned director Spike Lee for his latest project, a three-part documentary, ‘Katrina: Come Hell and ...

20 years after Katrina, the Louisiana SPCA is releasing the mini-documentary, “20 Years Stronger: Embracing Our Future.” It highlights people who were on the frontlines before, during, and after ...

Spike Lee is no stranger to documentaries about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it brought to New Orleans, as he previously made two of the best: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic death and destruction in America’s Gulf Coast. Katrina first made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida 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 ...

Across the Southeast, hurricanes dominate conversations from June through September. But this year feels different—it marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall in ...

Hurricane Katrina made its first landfall in southeast Louisiana at approximately 5:10 a.m. MT/6:10 a.m. CT, Aug. 29, 2005. By 9 a.m., a levee was breached, and water began pouring into eastern New ...

Edana Lawson and Karen Khaton evacuated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005. They found refuge in Pueblo, Colorado, with Lawson's brother, John Richardson, and his wife, ...