Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Bayou. The storm lasted from August 23 to 31, 2005.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, many evacuees came to the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. I do not even know where to begin. I just know Hurricane Katrina, and ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

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, ...

Hurricane Katrina did more than flood a city; it revealed America’s racial and class fault lines in ways the world could not ignore. On August 29, 2005, levees broke, waters surged, and over 1,800 ...

Coordinating a program of “Southern Stories” dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina was more than an obligatory tribute. To Kelley Girod, the director of new works at the Apollo ...

When President Bush spoke to the nation from New Orleans to present his ideas for rebuilding the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, he said: “We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action.

For Brandi Charlot, everything changed 20 years ago today. Charlot—who these days is the owner of Blucid, a floral business in New Orleans—lost everything to Hurricane Katrina when the category 3 ...

My mother doesn’t have any of her baby pictures. Years of storms washed them away. She grew up in southeast Louisiana—hurricane country—and I did, too. It’s a place where some names aren’t just names.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Emily Vinson started a new job at a pizza place. She fainted on her first day — and a customer came to the rescue. Time now for "My Unsung Hero," our series from ...