(Kent Porter / Press Democrat) A block and a half separate Henry Irvin’s house from the bayou that serves as the northern border of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. Modest single-family ...

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Ten years after the storm, the Lower Ninth Ward is a checkerboard of development. New and rebuilt homes stand right next to boarded-up ones. There are over 100 of Brad Pitt's ...

A flawed shipping project involving excavations at the Industrial Canal allowed Hurricane Katrina's surge to breach the floodwall in two places, causing massive flooding in the Lower 9th Ward and ...

JASMINE FRANKLIN, WHO IS LIVE IN THE LOWER NINTH WARD. AND JASMINE, YOU SPOKE TO PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY HAD WATER INSIDE THEIR HOMES. JOANNA. SEVERAL PEOPLE WE SPOKE WITH HERE SAID WATER MADE IT ...

Tulane students prefabricated the home at Tulane’s Albert and Tina Small Center, before transporting and constructing the ...

Former Superintendent Avis Williams (center) and members of New Orleans' school board after voting to directly run a school on Feb. 26, 2024. New Orleans’ interim superintendent of schools will ...

As daily afternoon storm clouds roll in, Johnson begins hiking up to a platform on the levee that protects the Lower 9th Ward, trailed by nine interns hoping to learn how they can help address the ...

On May 16 a powerful example of community collaboration came to life with the unveiling of a new tiny home duplex in the ...

NEW ORLEANS — A man from the Lower Ninth Ward gained national acclaim when he worked to open a small grocery store in the neighborhood still empty after Hurricane Katrina, but he hasn't stopped ...