President Bush has tapped homeland security adviser Frances Townsend to lead an internal inquiry into the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, but leading Democrats renewed calls for an ...

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asked President Bush to declare an emergency for her state Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Rita's arrival somewhere on the Gulf Coast. Earlier, Blanco declared a state of ...

The National Hurricane Center uses the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage using a ...

Storm surge is often the greatest threat to life and property along the coast during and after a hurricane. A number of ...

The costliest hurricane to impact the U.S. was Hurricane Katrina (2005), which caused an estimated $201.3 billion in damage.

The StormTracker Team at Louisiana First News has everything you need to know for hurricane preparedness. On the “Ahead of ...

Faltering forecasts, fired experts and whipsawing policy changes are raising questions about how the Trump administration ...

If some of this year’s names seem familiar, it’s because each year’s names are decided six years out by an international ...

NOAA is forecasting anywhere from 13 to 19 named storms in the Atlantic, and 6 to 10 of those the agency predicts will turn ...

In the Atlantic Basin, which includes storms that form in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of America (formerly ...

How growing up in the "cone of uncertainty" changed my life - even when I thought I had left it behind. Until Hurricane ...

Weathering and working through Hurricane Katrina sharpened me as a parent and a professional. Yet it's nothing compared to ...