NEW ORLEANS — Almost 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city, a drive through New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward takes you past boarded homes, empty, overgrown lots and block after block where there ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - On Jourdan Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward, a plaque stands just yards from the repaired Industrial Canal levee. It marks the breach during Hurricane Katrina that “killed hundreds” ...

Twenty years ago last week, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Plaquemines Parish, La., about 50 miles southeast of New Orleans. Thousands of people had evacuated in advance of the monster storm. But ...

NEW ORLEANS — Work is underway to rebuild a beloved landmark in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. The Katrina Memorial sat damaged and neglected on the Claiborne Avenue neutral ground as the 20th ...

THE RAIN CHANCES DECREASING. MORE ON OUR KATRINA COVERAGE FOR YOU. NOW WE KNOW IT HAS BEEN A POWERFUL LINEUP OF EVENTS TODAY, MARKING 20 YEARS SINCE COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR ENTIRE AREA CHANGED FOREVER.

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Former vice-president Al Gore joined rapper, educator and cookbook author Mia “Mia X” Young at the Industrial Canal wall in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of ...

No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound. There's still an... 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth ...