Government and independent engineers disagreed Thursday when pressed by a U.S. House subcommittee on whether levees are safe enough for residents to rebuild in areas struck by severe flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Complete Story
Even before Hurricane Katrina hit, the city's public housing projects were sinkholes of crime and despair.
A New Orleans couple who left their two dogs at a shelter when fleeing Hurricane Katrina went to court to get the pets back from two women who each adopted one.
After a bout with bronchitis, Tim McGraw was ready to take the stage Wednesday with wife Faith Hill as they prepared to resume their summer concert tour in the Big Easy and give all proceeds to Hurricane Katrina victims.
Ten months after Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana coast, 49 people found dead in the floodwater remain unidentified, the Orleans Parish coroner said Wednesday.
Hurricane Katrina has spawned a real cottage industry, catering to the tens of thousands of families still crammed in government-issued trailers 10 months after the storm.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday his city is recovering and that people have been "hoodwinked and bamboozled" into believing it won't be rebuilt. Nagin spoke at the Essence Music Festival's empowerment seminars, being held outside New Orleans for the first time because of lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina.
The Weather Service's performance during last year's devastating Hurricane Katrina won overall praise for accuracy in an internal review, which called for backup means of communications in such disasters.
Strides in housing and education must be made for Hurricane Katrina evacuees to return to New Orleans, National Urban League President Marc Morial said Sunday.
A police officer was fatally wounded in a foot-chase-turned-shootout that also killed the man he was pursuing at a cluster of apartment buildings where many Hurricane Katrina victims were relocated.
Residents driven from their homes in some of the region's worst flooding in decades said the destructive power unleashed when Hurricane Katrina breached levees in New Orleans last year convinced them that it's better to be safe than sorry.
Three people convicted of hauling away liquor, wine and beer from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison.
Overwhelmed volunteers, inflexible attitudes and inadequate anti-fraud measures are among the many shortcomings acknowledged by the American Red Cross in a candid and comprehensive new report assessing its response to Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina washed away the home and possessions of newlyweds Annie Bazoon-Singleton and Rivers Singleton.
The Navy says that some of the sailors and families whose personal data was discovered last week on a civilian Web site had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Less than a month after signing up as a Red Cross volunteer in Georgia, 67-year-old Al Lucas went to a Louisiana shelter filled with hundreds who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina.
The body of a man who apparently drowned in the floods that followed Hurricane Katrina was found under furniture in his once-flooded house, the coroner's chief investigator said.
Detectives knocked on doors Sunday in a search for anyone with information on the killings of five teenagers gunned down in a blaze of semiautomatic gunfire. Police had no new leads to the killers, said police Capt. John Bryson.
Five people ranging in age from 16 to 19 were killed in a street shooting early Saturday, the most violent crime reported in this slowly repopulating city since Hurricane Katrina hit last August.
The Hooters restaurant chain has a $200 check ready for FEMA, reimbursement for a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne bought with Hurricane Katrina relief money. FEMA will be happy to have the money back.
A severe storm alert, an evacuation-route marker and a sign bearing the high-water mark of flooding in New Orleans are among about 60 objects around which the National Museum of American History plans to build an exhibit on Hurricane Katrina.
The federal government said Wednesday it will demolish some of the largest public housing projects in New Orleans, using the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help improve poor, crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Five-time Grammy winning R&B; artist Usher pulled on some work gloves, grabbed a pair of trimmers and chopped away at a patch of vines that had overtaken a fence at a New Orleans school shuttered by Hurricane Katrina.
The AFL-CIO plans to invest $700 million in housing and other projects to help rebuild this city left staggered by housing shortages and other infrastructure problems after Hurricane Katrina.
Here are key elements of a compromise House-Senate $94.5 billion spending bill for Iraq, Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina recovery passed Tuesday by the House: