The catastrophic flooding that filled the bowl that is New Orleans on Monday and Tuesday will only get worse over the next few days because rainfall from Hurricane Katrina continues to flow into Lake ...

New Orleans modeled its flood defenses on Dutch expertise. Now, through a global network of barrier engineers, the Dutch are ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm that made landfall off the Louisiana coast on August 29, 2005, with maximum sustained wind speeds of 120 miles per hour. Because of the ensuing destruction and ...

NEW ORLEANS AP - A coastal geologist testified Monday that he warned the Army Corps of engineers decades ago about the dangers of the shipping channel that funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge ...

Hurricane Katrina was described as "a slow-motion catastrophe" on "60 Minutes" on Sept. 4, 2005, six days after slamming the Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, the storm is known as the costliest and one ...

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water is about so much more than the flood. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twenty years ago this ...

This story, headlined "Flooding wipes out two communities," was originally published Aug. 30, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The ...