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Hurricane Katrina

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New Orleans marks 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

  • Aug 29, 2025
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Robin Roberts returns home 20 years after Hurricane Katrina

  • Aug 5, 2025
National Geographic

'Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time' revisits the deadly catastrophe

  • Jun 26, 2025

Helene: Death toll rises to 200, deadliest since Hurricane Katrina

  • Oct 3, 2024

Special Olympics provide new community to family displaced by Katrina

  • Jun 17, 2022

Durham couple remembers Hurricane Katrina like it was yesterday

  • Aug 30, 2021

Photos: Hurricane Katrina made landfall on this day in 2005

  • Aug 29, 2021

Honoré to lead review of 'security infrastructure' after Capitol riot

  • Jan 15, 2021

Latest Videos

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'Good Morning America's' Robin Roberts returns to Gulf Coast 20 years after Hurricane Katrina

  • Aug 28, 2025

The most destructive, deadliest hurricanes in recent U.S. history

  • Sep 7, 2017
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ABC11's Tisha Powell reflects on 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

  • Aug 30, 2017
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Storm stirs memories for Katrina survivors

  • Aug 29, 2017
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Katrina survivors recall their experience

  • Aug 29, 2015

Latest Stories

Hurricane Katrina by the numbers

Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf coast in 2005. Here are facts and figures about the catastrophic event.

  • Aug 29, 2020
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Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana's governor during Katrina, dies

After struggling for years with cancer, Kathleen Blanco died Sunday in hospice care in Lafayette. She was 76.

  • Aug 18, 2019
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How Hurricane Maria stacks up against other deadly, destructive storms

Hurricane Maria has become the first hurricane in U.S. history to both cause more than 2,000 deaths and at least $1 billion in damage, according to the results of a new report.

  • Aug 29, 2018
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America's costliest hurricanes caused tens of billions of dollars in damage

We are still waiting for damage assessment to be completed from Hurricane Harvey, but it appears this will become the costliest hurricane in U.S. history, surpassing Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  • Sep 8, 2017

Harvey stirs painful memories for Katrina survivors

Like injured veterans avoiding a war movie, Victoria Olsen and Dale Bellard, who survived Hurricane Katrina, will not turn on the news coverage of Hurricane Harvey.

  • Aug 29, 2017