The Lower Ninth Ward, hit hard by Katrina, struggles to rebuild. August 26, 2010 — -- Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters ...

A flawed shipping project involving excavations at the Industrial Canal allowed Hurricane Katrina's surge to breach the floodwall in two places, causing massive flooding in the Lower 9th Ward and ...

Post-Katrina, 1,061 households were reported in the Lower Ninth Ward. Before Katrina, there were 4,800. Ninety-eight percent were African American, and 56 percent were homeowners with no mortgages.

thursday marks 19 years since hurricane katrina ravaged through new orleans, specifically here in the lower ninth ward. OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES AMID THAT STORM. AND IF YOU LOOK ...

After Katrina, only about 37 percent of households returned to this once-vibrant neighborhood, ... The Lower Ninth Ward is cut off from the rest of New Orleans by a shipping channel, ...

Betty Ann Bowser looks at what has changed in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans -- and what hasn't -- since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area five years ago. Full Episode Saturday, Jul 5 ...

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

Teacher Diana Boylston evacuated to Houston during Hurricane Katrina not knowing if she'd ever see her students from the 9th Ward again. A 9th Ward native, Diana Boylston was working in public ...

Rolling on a tour bus through the silent, ghost-town neighborhoods of the Lower Ninth Ward, Gentilly and Eastern New Orleans, a visitor could be forgiven for thinking that the city's traditional ...

For the impacted homeowners of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, the August 2022 announcement that they were one step closer to being made whole — with relief coming in the form of a $20.5 ...

I came across these items while walking the streets of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward two years after Hurricane Katrina. I was in the neighborhood documenting the destruction that remained years ...

Green is a lifelong Lower 9th Ward survivor. He has seen firsthand how his community looked before and after Hurricane Katrina. Nineteen years later, he said he is seeing new homes being built and ...