But like the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the canal also serves as a highway to New Orleans for hurricanes and their storm surges. Hurricane Betsy sideswipes New Orleans, killing several dozen and ...

Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive flooding and killed dozens of ...

Tropical Storm Rafael is on track to hit the southern tip of Louisiana by Saturday as it continues to gather strength en ...

The home at 2897 Abundance St. crumbled under the mechanical arm of an excavator with surprising ease, the red-brick, one ...

The program started in the wake of Hurricane Betsy in 1965. Hecht said that the ... a disaster management professor at Tulane ...

Gov. Jeff Landry's moves are likely to raise fresh concerns over the erosion of reforms after Hurricane Katrina. His ...

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but far less than the surge during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which reached nearly 30 feet in some places and overpowered the New Orleans area’s hobbled levee system. That system has been ...

By the time it made landfall near New Orleans on Aug. 29, it had weakened slightly to a Category 3 hurricane, with winds of around 125 mph. Katrina's storm surge — up to 28 feet in some areas ...

Hurricane Milton is moving toward the Sarasota area, south of Tampa Bay, with an expected landfall between 9-10 p.m. ET. The powerful Category 3 storm has sustained winds of 120 mph. The Buccaneers ...

ORLANDO –– The Orlando Magic's Friday night preseason game versus the New Orleans Pelicans has been canceled due to Hurricane Milton's impact on the state of Florida, the NBA announced in a ...