St. Bernard Memorial Funeral Home and Gardens is where Dorothy always planned to spend eternity. She purchased a plot and ...

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

Nope, it's not random—hurricane names are decided years in advance. Learn how, and who gets to name them.

It is always important to look back to lessons learned during Hurricane Katrina and someone who knows a lot about that is ...

“God wanted me to be there,” Shelton Alexander says. "He wanted me to tell this story” Angelina Liu is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in The Daily Texan and The Austin ...

Ms. Doris Voitier announced her plans to retire next month after decades with the school system, which she notably shepherded through Hurricane Katrina.

Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...

Melvin Cohea wound through the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. He was evacuated five days after the ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — “Surviving Katrina” is currently on display at The Tate Etienne and Prevost Center. It’s an exhibition by the artist Ted Ellis that shows the fortitude of New Orleans 20 years ...

HOUSTON — 20 years later and I’ll never forget when the first buses from New Orleans rolled into Houston. I stood at the Astrodome as families stepped off. I hugged survivors, held back tears, helped ...

Former ARN writer Sidney Levesque reflects on covering Hurricane Katrina and her pride in the Key City. The Levesques are ...

Beg-Knows America is a regular feature on CBS Mornings. Hosted by native Louisianan David Begnaud, the show’s title is a play on his Cajun French surname. Begnaud focuses his segment on human interest ...