Brian Adam, known as “Hooty,” became EMA director just two years before Hurricane Katrina devastated South Mississippi in 2005.

A tropical wave moved off the coast of Africa into the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 11, 2005, on a westward path. As it crossed the Central Atlantic and eventually reached the Leeward Islands, on Aug. 19 it ...

Hurricane Katrina. It has been two decades since the levees were breached and flood waters took over the city’s streets, ...

The storm left a path of destruction and tragedy in its wake as it swept through areas including Gulfport, Biloxi, Mobile, Orange Beach, Gulf Shores and Northwest Florida. It remains the most ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn ...

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

Taqueria Guerrero, a Mexican restaurant that opened in New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina, to temporarily close ...

What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...