It remains fair to question why it took the government as long to get assistance to all the areas affected by Hurricane ...

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 ...

Those who picked up an edition of the Houston Chronicle on Aug. 31, 2005, would have no doubt heard of Hurricane Katrina and understood its impact. But on the off chance they didn't know beforehand, ...

Water surrounds homes in the devastated Ninth Ward in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. (Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) On Aug. 29, 2005 — exactly ...

When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast in August 2005, it left New Orleans devastated and tens of thousands displaced. In the days that followed, Houston’s Reliant Astrodome opened its ...

(The Center Square) − Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the rows of pastel “Katrina Cottages” scattered across Louisiana still stand as reminders of both government ambition and bureaucratic ...

It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, ultimately becoming one of the most catastrophic and defining natural ...

NhuNgoc Pham was a high school student living in the New Orleans metro area when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, had recently purchased ...

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-size satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, ...

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