Twenty years ago, the storm showed how few resources a city built on extraction had.

By JACK BROOK, Associated Press/Report for AmericaNEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New...

Editor’s note: Mississippi Today Ideas is publishing guest essays from people impacted by Hurricane Katrina during the week of the 20th ann...

Devastating flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. They called on the Church to be a sign of hope amid difficultie...

I am not from New Orleans. But sometimes, I get honorary status because I have lived and worked here as a news reporter since 1999—and becau...

Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costl...

Former Gov. Haley Barbour reflects on the hurricane's blow to Mississippi, where 238 people were killed. He says there are lessons in the re...

The current hurricane classification does not consider storm surge and rainfall risks, which cause almost 80% of hurricane-related deaths. A...

Remembering one of the most devastating disasters in U.S. history SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty years ago, Hurrican...

The two weather events are set to bring ‘unseasonable’ conditions to the UK

Disasters were once considered an act of God—tragically inevitable in their devastation. Then Hurricane Katrina happened in 2005, and th...

A yellow weather warning for rain has been issued for Wales by the Met Office

Revisiting the time she broke down on “Good Morning America” while covering Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of her hometown Pass Christian,...

Editor’s note: Mississippi Today Ideas is publishing guest essays from people impacted by Hurricane Katrina during the week of the 20th anni...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with WWNO reporter Alana Schreiber, in New Orleans, about how she helped reunite a Katrina evacuee with his childh...