Hurricane Katrina

For their audio piece, 12th grade student Joi Metoyer reflects on what home is.

Dr. Ben deBoisblanc was a physician working at Charity Hospital when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast 20 years ago. The unexpected challenges he faced during that time reshaped his relationship with caregiving.

This month, people across New Orleans will come together to honor the lives that were lost or forever changed by Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later. Here's a schedule of events happening across the city.

With New Orleans under water, people incarcerated there were bused out to detention facilities across the South. Their records didn't go with them, massively complicating their legal cases.

A sudden surge in tree planting across New Orleans has come to an even more sudden halt.

With so many voters displaced after Helene in the swing state of North Carolina, election officials are receiving guidance from a state that has done this many times before— Louisiana.

“Rest assured that in 2025, Aug. 29 will have a state resolution and also be Katrina Day,” recording artist Sess 4-5 said.

Some say this coastal Mississippi town doesn’t exist anymore, wiped off the map due to repeated storms. But to its residents, it’s still alive and well.

This is American Routes, fifteen years after the storm and flood that left 80% of New Orleans underwater. We’re still rebuilding. Many New Orleanians…

"Katrina: A History, 1915–2015" details the long story leading up to the storm — the development plans, federal assistance programs, politics, and…