When Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. in 2005, nearly 2000 people lost their lives and the cost of the catastrophe exceeded ...

Follow live updates about Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall in Florida as a dangerous Category 3 storm and is now ...

Emergency management is, at its heart, a profession obsessed with the future. We model storms that have not yet formed, train for attacks that have not yet occurred, and write plans for cascading ...

To get there and to other sites like it, organizers have ferried dozens of volunteers week after week in airboats. One day, ...

Kendrick Simpson, who killed two people during a 2006 drive-by shooting in Oklahoma City, was executed Thursday morning at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester.

WDSU Investigates uncovered records showing Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. changed how its cancellation refunds ...

Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee. He's being executed for gunning ...

Oklahoma is set to execute a man convicted of killing two men in a drive-by shooting in 2006. Forty-five-year-old Kendrick ...

This is the second straight year with a smaller class after only four people made it last year as new rule changes have made ...

Liv Bridge is a digital journalist who joined the UNILAD team in 2024 after almost three years reporting local news for a Newsquest UK paper, The Oldham Times. She's passionate about health, housing, ...

Hurricane Melissa is stronger than Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago, forecasters warn. While both storms reached sustained winds of 175 mph at their peak, Katrina made landfall as a Category 3 storm.

Twenty years ago this week, and just short of one month after Hurricane Katrina destroyed parts of the Mississippi coast and put New Orleans under water for weeks, the unthinkable happened: An even ...