Water stands in much of the area around downtown New Orleans seven days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Sept. 5, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, battering ...

Along with the trauma and dislocation, Hurricane Katrina has spawned acclaimed documentaries, investigative reports, music and art, as well as a wealth of conspiracy theories and myths. So we thought ...

Today, Nigel Tapp is a 911 operator and high school marching band drumming instructor. But in 2005, he was 4 years old, and told he had to evacuate because of Hurricane Katrina. “I do remember not ...

Soon after Hurricane Katrina had passed, but long before the flood waters had receded, came the deluge of do-gooders. The rebuilding of metropolitan New Orleans involved around 500 new nonprofits (in ...

When Hurricane Katrina happened 20 years ago, 4-year-old Nigel Tapp evacuated from the Lower Ninth Ward to Montclair, New Jersey – the hometown of managing producer Alana Schreiber. When his pre-K ...

Hurricane Melissa is moving slowly. It reached the coast of Jamaica this afternoon after stalling out over the Caribbean Sea ...

Twenty years ago, few people in New Orleans were paying attention to a tropical depression forming over the Bahamas. The Crescent City was enjoying a lazy summer in late August. But within days, that ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Andy Horowitz, author of "Katrina: A History 1915-2015," about misconceptions post-Hurricane Katrina and his assertion that what happened in 2005 was entirely ...