MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- When it slammed ashore on the Gulf Coast in August, Hurricane Katrina was a strong Category 3 storm, not a Category 4 as initially thought, the National Hurricane Center ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans' coroner expressed outrage Tuesday that the process of using DNA to identify more than 200 bodies left from Hurricane Katrina has not begun because the ...

rain and battering winds from Hurricane Katrina three weeks ago caused three levees to fail in New Orleans, causing massive flooding through nearly all of the city. (Posted 9:35 p.m.) CNN.com ...

Latest numbers on Hurricane Rita (CNN) -- Here are the latest numbers as reported by the National Hurricane Center at 3:00 a.m. EDT: Top wind speed: near 120 mph, with higher gusts ...

CNN.com asked readers to share their thoughts about Hurricane Katrina. Here is a sampling from the responses, some of which have been edited: My daughter teaches a special ed class in a north ...

CNN Worldwide. She is based at CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta. Since 1999, Jeras has covered blizzards, floods, fires, ...

(CNN) -- Police, firefighters, and Coast Guard crews may be the first to come to mind when naming the lifesavers during disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. It might be time to add geographers to ...

In 2005, Oppenheim was among the CNN crew that covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from the U.S. Gulf Coast. In September 2003, Oppenheim reported live from the battered North Carolina ...

(Posted 12:28 p.m.) La. death toll from Katrina now at 923 BATON ROUGE, La. (CNN) -- Officials in Louisiana said the death toll resulting from Hurricane Katrina now stands at 923. The information ...

(CNN) -- Government response to Hurricane Katrina was sharply criticized at all levels. CNN.com asked readers whether government -- at any level -- should be restructured to respond better to the ...