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 ...

“We Came to Rebuild New Orleans: Stories of the Hurricane Katrina Volunteers” by Christopher E. Manning, LSU Press, 308 pages, and “Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street Food Vendors ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mazes of shelves stacked with about 140,000 used books fill Kaboom Books. The bookstore once brimmed just as full in New Orleans — until Hurricane Katrina forced a move 20 years ago and its owners ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -Joy and pain often go hand in hand in New Orleans. Both were on display Friday during a pair of second line parades in the Lower Ninth Ward that celebrated survival while also ...

NEW ORLEANS — After we told the story of a one-pound baby at Memorial Medical Center, and the doctor who saved his life during Hurricane Katrina, we heard from several other mothers who said they have ...

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.

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 ...