Before the storm, the city tried to engineer water out of sight. But, David Waggonner says, “you can’t live with water if you ...

It has been 20 years since New Orleans‘ faulty levee system failed during Hurricane Katrina, causing a flood that claimed almost 1,400 lives and inflicted more than $150 billion in economic damage.

This story, headlined "Flooding will only get worse," was originally published Aug. 31, 2005. It is being republished for the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as part of The Times-Picayune's ...

Hurricane Katrina is widely regarded as one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the United States, with an estimated 1,833 fatalities and extensive damage and flooding caused by the storm's ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina made landfall and exposed a horrifying yet predictable truth: Water kills. The unnerving images of spray-painted pleas for help and families awaiting ...

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 ...