Edwards says the area outside her home in the Lower 9th Ward was completely covered in water. “I guess we were surprised because it has never flooded like this here before,” Edwards said. But the ...

After Hurricane Katrina, many properties across the Lower Nine incurred serious damage. Residents say they spent years restoring their properties and the image of the Lower 9th Ward, but now ...

The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...

The Ninth Ward Stadium was proposed after Hurricane Katrina, but the project struggled to get off the ground.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — One person is dead, and another has been arrested following a car crash that happened in the Lower Ninth Ward on Saturday ... and Sister Street, before hitting an impact ...

Today, green infrastructure projects on Ms. Chalk’s block can capture 8,800 gallons of rain per storm, and Water Wise has ...

Brad Pitt’s nonprofit built 109 homes in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, an area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The cluster of homes were built between 2008 and 2015. The initiative aimed to ...

We're less than 50 days out from the official start of the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, and first responders and ...

“New Orleans East and the Lower Ninth Ward were hit the hardest by Hurricane Katrina, and I still haven't seen us bounce back yet,” she said. Christmas views her youth as an advantage that ...

The Orleans Parish School Board will auction seven empty school buidlings and vacant lots as it seeks to wipe some of the surplus property from its books amid a financial crisis.