In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina, the Carter Work Project took place in recovering communities along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

NEW ORLEANS — As we remember and reflect on 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall, forever changing our way of life and culture, WDSU is featuring stories on the people who played key ...

Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center poses serious risks, including hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes, experts say.

The massive piece of legislation to which President Donald Trump has just attached his legacy allocates $170 billion for ...

House Bill 3006 would require the installation of climate control in state prison facilities by 2032.

Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 55, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Thursday for shooting three young Black men who were trying to evacuate New Orleans following the tragic aftermath of Hurricane ...

As the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches on Aug. 29, 2025, Brenan Compretta and Jeremy Turcotte, who were part of Bay High's football coaching staff in 2005, talk about what it took ...

A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes received the maximum 20 years in prison Friday, for cheating customers ...

Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decaying bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison Jon Hallford will be sentenced in August in a separate state case in which he pleaded guilty to 191 counts ...

Wladimir Vera Villamizar, a 33-year-old welder, had a whole lung removed — an uncommon procedure that requires months of intensively managed recovery, according to doctors.

Blogs under former Anaheim mayor’s name appear while he’s in prison Mayor Harry Sidhu addresses visitors to Anaheim’s State of the City Luncheon at City National Grove of Anaheim, CA, on ...