A US federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a decision that could make the ...
Hurricane Katrina has smashed across the southern coastline of the United States, destroying houses and leaving some areas up to three metres under water. The US National Weather Service says what it ...
Telephone companies struggled to restore service and measure the damage to their networks in Louisiana and Mississippi on Tuesday after Hurricane Katrina cut power and triggered severe flooding.
"We were sitting in the yard about 11:00 when the levees broke" on August 29, 2005, he tells AFP. He quickly jumped in his truck and headed for the Claiborne Avenue Bridge, high up, where he watched ...
NEW ORLEANS - Dozens of lawsuits seeking damages from the federal government for Hurricane Katrina-related levee failures and flooding in the New Orleans area are over. U.S. District Judge Stanwood ...
An insurance group warns the flood damage from Hurricane Harvey could equal that of Katrina, which resulted in claims totalling more than $US15 billion. Flood ...
NEW ORLEANS AP - A coastal geologist testified Monday that he warned the Army Corps of engineers decades ago about the dangers of the shipping channel that funneled Hurricane Katrina's storm surge ...
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A New Orleans flood-control officer testified Friday that two nursing home owners could not have imagined the amount of water that would flood their parish during Hurricane Katrina. His comments came ...
NEW ORLEANS — Brandi Wagner thought she had survived Hurricane Katrina. She hung tough while the storm’s 125-mph winds pummeled her home, and powered through two months of sleeping in a sweltering ...
A US federal judge has ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a decision that could make the ...