(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 ...

The Lower Ninth Ward, hit hard by Katrina, struggles to rebuild. August 26, 2010 — -- Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters ...

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 ...

When powerful storms hit your city, which neighborhoods are most likely to flood? In many cities, they're typically ...

Eyes are on New Orleans as the Katrina 10-year anniversary approaches, but people living in the Lower Ninth Ward feel like they’ve been forgotten.With the national attention focused on the city ...

But scenes from the neglected Lower Ninth Ward, which resembles a ghost town as 81% of its citizens haven’t returned, probably will be missing from the Super Bowl images. There will be no ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Lower Ninth Ward boil water advisory was canceled Saturday morning after it had been issued a day earlier. The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans said the water pressure ...