The Latest Breaking News from Hurricane Katrina

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers – the largest such population in any country. Although incarcerated people are locked away from the outside world, they are even more vulnerable to the impacts of disasters, such as hurricanes and wildfires, than…

The park opened in 2000 just off Interstate 10 as Jazzland Theme Park, but it went bankrupt in two seasons

Tonette Waltman Jackson was swept away by floodwaters after her house was torn in half during devastating 2005 storm

Tiffany Woods, now 43, is serving a life sentence for second-degree murder after giving cow’s milk to her malnourished baby in 2005 as the family fled from Hurricane Katrina

Social media users were quick to call back to the Hurricane Katrina era

Extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer has spent over 25 years tracking and intercepting hurricanes in addition to hunting tornadoes.

The ship was previously involved in the response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005

The failure of Pete Buttigieg, the US secretary of transportion, to appear for nearly three weeks recalls the incompetence of Fema during Hurricane Katrina

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."