PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Hurricane Katrina set a historical precedent for hurricanes that achieve the frightening caliber of Category 5 intensity. Aug. 29 this year marks the 20 years since one of ...

Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (2005 Staff file) Michael Boyd navigates a commandeered boat through flooded streets. Boyd volunteered to take other volunteers out on his fishing boat to search for ...

For the next 12 months, WDSU will feature stories on the people who played key roles before, during and after the storm.

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -Joy and pain often go hand in hand in New Orleans. Both were on display Friday during a pair of second line parades in the Lower Ninth Ward that celebrated survival while also ...

On Aug. 29, 2005 — exactly 20 years ago today — Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. America hasn’t suffered a storm as devastating since. Katrina’s winds, rains, floodwaters and aftereffects ...

Some of the charities created in the Gulf Coast to provide recovery aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina will cease operations or merge with others in coming months and years because competition for ...

When Hurricane Katrina churned toward the Gulf Coast in late August 2005, Kelsey McCaffrey’s biggest worry wasn’t floodwaters or evacuation routes. She was thinking about the Kelly Clarkson concert ...

Aug. 29, 1982. The day Alnitia Woods was born in New Orleans. Aug. 29, 2005: The day Hurricane Katrina plowed into New Orleans and changed her life forever. “I believe that I can go through anything ...

The devastation of Hurricane Katrina sparked sweeping changes in hurricane forecasting and emergency preparedness. Forecast models, satellite imagery, and real-time data from Hurricane Hunter aircraft ...

A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 11, 2005, on a westward path. As it crossed the Central Atlantic and eventually reached the Leeward Islands, on Aug. 19 it ...