Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. The catastrophic storm, which made landfall as a Category 3, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Louisiana often relies on federal assistance after its struck by natural disasters. But President Trump has indicated he wants to ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will waive some payments mistakenly given to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters, according to the Washington Post. Some of the overpayments to aid ...

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered. As the nation looks back on ...

WASHINGTON – Most people who lived in south Louisiana 20 years ago can’t help but recall what they were doing, what they saw, and what they experienced when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, big changes at FEMA are in danger. The Trump administration wants to overhaul disaster relief rules, replace experts with new leadership, and shift the agency's ...

The resistance of residents to leave their pets behind created a whirlwind of acts designed to help pets and their parents weather these types of natural disasters. The end of August marked a ...

Mayor Helena Moreno knew she was facing a financial mess before she took over from LaToya Cantrell on Jan. 12. In her first ...

In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, FEMA faltered. The response was slow, political and disjointed. Mismanaged by someone without extensive emergency management experience, ...

Louisiana nonprofit groups are wondering why they were never offered any of the $85-million in supplies for Hurricane Katrina victims that the Federal Emergency Management Agency stored for two years ...