Today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. The catastrophic storm, which made landfall as a Category 3, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM EDT Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana 20 years ago this week. The storm killed more than 1,300 people and displaced tens of thousands more. In the years since ...

Employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned Monday that the nation’s top disaster relief agency is acting to reverse critical progress it’s made in the two decades since ...

Link Copied! When Hurricane Katrina crashed into New Orleans on August 29, 2005 – first with heavy rain, then winds so strong they shattered glass in window frames and a flood that washed away ...

The director of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who has been strongly criticised for his handling of the response to Hurricane Katrina, has been sent back to Washington. The ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. enters another dangerous season with a fractured national emergency response system. Katrina showed what happens when truth and trusted communication are ...

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, big changes at FEMA are in danger. The Trump administration wants to overhaul disaster relief rules, replace experts with new leadership, and shift the agency's ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Moments after Hurricane Katrina stormed into South Mississippi, one of the first federal agencies on the ground in the destruction zone was the Federal Emergency Management Agency.