A lifelong resident of St. Bernard Parish, a community just east of New Orleans, Aguilar lost everything during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Nearly three years later, like ma ...

Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina still file into the Baton Rouge River Center, located on the banks of the Mississippi River, even as others leave for temporary housing with relatives, relocate to a ...

Hurricane Katrina pushed the sea 10 kilometres inland in some communities. This wall of water turned a destructive cyclone into a generational tragedy along the northern Gulf Coast. More than 1,300 ...

• Moving north: Melissa is an “extremely dangerous” Category 3 hurricane as it closes in on Cuba, the National Hurricane Center warned, after the storm made a historic landfall in Jamaica as one of ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

Hurricane Melissa is expected to make landfall in Jamaica Tuesday, bringing severe winds and flooding. For survivors, the dangers don’t end when the storm passes — hidden hazards like mold, structural ...

• NOW: Hurricane Melissa has made landfall near New Hope, Jamaica, as a 185 mph Category 5 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center. One of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes in history, it ...

Philanthropic groups, along with government and corporations, failed in their efforts to deal with the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, says a report issued by Republicans in Congress, ...

"The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer," the outlet began, introducing one of the factors responsible for Hurricane Melissa's unnatural severity. Melissa made landfall in Jamaica on ...