Mississippi's recovery from Hurricane Katrina has been marked by significant improvements in emergency preparedness and response, as local leaders reflect on the lessons learned from the disaster. The ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Ginger Woechan is a familiar face in Mobile. She’s an artist. She even painted FOX10’s Mardi Gras float. She lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina demolished her ...

On a Thursday morning, three regulars sit in cool darkness. Two shoot pool, another sips a Coors Light. The smell of cigarette smoke clings to walls and hangs in the air. Turtle Landing Bar & Grill, ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) proclaimed Friday, August 29, 2025, as Hurricane Katrina Remembrance Day in Mississippi. The governor called for a statewide minute of silence ...

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — One of Mississippi’s largest employers, a shipyard that builds vessels for the Navy and Coast Guard, announced Thursday that it is rebuilding and reopening part of its ...

BILOXI, Miss. -- Meteorologist Richard Knabb was working his first season as a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center when Hurricane Katrina hit Category 5 status in the Gulf of Mexico. He was ...

Amtrak is returning to the Mississippi Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago. Cities along that route are still living with the storm's aftermath. Stephan Bisaha ...

TUPELO — This weekend marks the day two decades ago south Mississippi was forever changed. Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, and the scars of its deadly ...

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-size satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with business owner Ron Ladner about the community he invested in after Hurricane Katrina devasted the town of Pass Christian, on the Mississippi waterfront. KUOW is Seattle ...

When Hurricane Katrina first hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, I was working as a consultant in the Bethesda, Maryland office of Reznick Group (now CohnReznick). Being more than 1,000 ...