I’m very concerned about putting politics back into flood protection,” said board member Richard Duplantier. “There's no ...

Before long ... his searing HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke. What became apparent to Spike and me as we collaborated was that Katrina, in New Orleans anyway, was a man-made disaster.

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

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, Fox 8 is producing a series of reports examining the progress, or lack thereof, in various communities along the Gulf Coast. This particular ...

It was 19 years ago that Ruthie Frierson led a group of more than 100 -- called “Citizens for One New Orleans” -- which called for massive reform after the levee failures of Katrina.

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with ... which lessened the protection provided by the city's levees, made New Orleans more vulnerable in 2005.