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

Cuts, chaos, and climate change are converging to leave Americans more vulnerable to disaster than they were in 2005.

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the disaster’s legacy still shapes America. It exposed deep racial and economic disparities, strained infrastructure, and challenged our ...

Trump might decide to shrink the agency even further with more job cuts, effectively rendering it unable to carry out its duties, as he has done with the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Were you displaced by Hurricane Katrina? The USA TODAY Network is chronicling the lingering impact of the catastrophic storm and the resilience of the people involved. If you are an evacuee who ...

Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, 2005, primarily affecting the Gulf Coast of the United States, and became one ...

Hurricane Helene has become one of the deadliest hurricanes in the United States, at least since the emergence of modern weather forecasting. There have been at least 221 deaths in six states as a ...