Kendrick Simpson is a New Orleans native who fled to Oklahoma as a Hurricane Katrina refugee. He's being executed for gunning down two men after an argument.

"They were terminated due to them abandoning the department prior to the storm," acting superintendent Warren Riley said. "They either left before the hurricane or 10 to 12 days after the storm and we ...

W.K. Kellogg Foundation President and CEO La June Montgomery Tabron at the foundation’s Healing Day in New Orleans *New Orleans, LA — Ten years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, it’s time for ...

Throughout 2025, our city marked the poignant milestone of the 20th year of rebuilding efforts following the historic and unprecedented devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina and the multiple levee ...

The intrusion of Border Patrol and ICE into the New Orleans area is a violation of the sovereignty of local governments to manage their communities. But the deeper, gut-punching violation is of the ...

University of Virginia student Jessica Smith grew up in New Orleans during the years following Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated the city and surrounding areas. One thing Smith ...

A look at the tropical cyclone that hit the American city in August 2005, the largest hurricane to ever make landfall in the US, with more than a thousand lives lost during it. The documentary ...