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 ...

Anthony Bean is all about preserving history through the arts. The veteran theater director recently wrote and directed a one night only performance of 504 NOLA: a youth musical about Hurricane ...

Hurricane Katrina roared ashore along the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. The Category 3 hurricane and the ensuing breached levees and floodwalls caused more than 1,300 deaths – many of them in the Lower ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - 20 years after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of New Orleans East, Marco Jose Hernandez recalls the sense of community that existed on the same block as his grandparents and ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm's anniversary Friday with solemn memorials, ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday with memorials, performances and a parade to honor those who were affected.

Twenty years ago, it was the most radical experiment in American education. Today, it’s just the New Orleans school system. That system, which state leaders and self-styled reformers engineered after ...

NEW ORLEANS – It’s breakfast time at the Hey! Café in this city’s Broadmoor neighborhood, and patrons line up to buy steaming cups of cafe au lait and freshly baked biscuit breakfast sandwiches. Some ...