Louisiana’s landmark climate adaptation program is running out of time “We can rebuild a piece of marsh, ... A rebuilt levee wall in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans.

Flood waters fill the lower ninth ward through a breach in the Industrial Canal levee in New Orleans Friday September 23, 2005. The Army Corps of Engineers had just finished repairs to the ...

While people drowned on live TV, FEMA turned away rescue efforts. The buses that could have saved 20,000 sat underwater. This ...

It was just 30 days after Hurricane Katrina marauded across New Orleans when artist Jeffrey Holmes and his then-wife Andrea ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

NEW ORLEANS – Fifteen years ago this week, a Coast Guard helicopter pulled Webster Rainy from his niece's rooftop in the Lower 9th Ward as floodwaters swallowed his neighbors in the wake of ...

Facing demolition, some question whether New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward should rise again. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

The four-story former administration building has been transformed into 59 apartments, most of them one-bedroom units.

The Lower Ninth Ward is an impoverished neighborhood that gained national recognition when a levee broke after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. About 9,000 people in the neighborhood died from flooding.

A traditional African ceremony of calling the ancestors and those who were lost was a part of the remembrance during the 17th Annual Katrina Memorial in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward on Monday.

Experts once wrote New Orleans' 9th Ward off for dead. ... Less than 1,000 feet from the Lake Pontchartrain levees that failed so ... the State of Louisiana is asking for bids on millions of ...