And the consequences of levee failure happen fast. By some accounts, 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in ...

Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans with a 28-foot (8.5 meter) storm surge and 2 feet (61 centimeters) of rainfall. The water easily breached the city's old levee system in about ...

Twenty years ago, after a levee break caused devastation during Hurricane Katrina, the rebuilding in New Orleans would never have been possible without the influx of Hispanic workers. Today ...

We found that one Katrina bill authorized $12 million for a Louisiana hurricane protection study ... Previously, five different levee districts operated as separate local sponsors for federally ...

The city of New Orleans is still rebuilding and repairing homes that were damaged in the fallout from 2005's Hurricane Katrina ... water pumping stations, and levees that attempt to protect ...

"As a researcher who has closely observed, personally experienced local struggles," says the writer, Bethany Garfield, "it’s with a heavy heart that I say that investigations into the state of our ...

Lee’s doc will revisit the hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities ... seen archive illustrate the magnitude of Katrina, the aftermath of the levees breaking and the bungled recovery.” ...

It was 20 years ago, in August 2005, that the great Crescent City of New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina ... 2006 HBO documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts ...