Top News
Officials May Breach Levee as Isaac Storms Inland
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Newly downgraded Tropical Storm Isaac plodded its way across Louisiana on the seventh anniversary of Katrina, with officials weighing whether to…
Tag: Hurricane Katrina
Top News
New Orleans’ Post-Katrina Gentrification is Touchy
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With Isaac bearing down on New Orleans, the city finds itself at a delicate moment in its rebuilding since Hurricane Katrina…
Top News
Deja Vu: The Hurricane and the GOP
Isaac is causing panic for those in its path and forcing politicians in the Republican Party to make quick decisions on delaying the start of…
National News
Isaac Threat to Gulf Well Beyond New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With its massive size and ponderous movement, a strengthening Isaac could become a punishing rain machine depending on its power, speed…
If You Missed It
New Orleans Official Pleads Guilty in Katrina Fraud
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans city councilman has pleaded guilty to plotting to misuse federal money intended to help a nonprofit organization after…
Top News
Millions Spent on Upkeep of Empty Katrina Lots
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than 3,000 lots flooded by Hurricane Katrina and bought with federal money in an emergency bailout sit idle across this…
National News
Katrina Funds Spent on Underused Sewage Plants
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — An Associated Press investigation shows officials in Mississippi took private property and spent millions of dollars in Hurricane Katrina recovery money…
Top News
Katrina Flood Levees Won’t Get Historic Listing
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National Parks Service has rejected a push for historic registry status for parts of the New Orleans levees that breached…
