Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward unveiled a plaque that marks the location where the levee broke and drowned their neighborhood 10 years ago.The plaque is on the east side of the Industrial Canal ...

Robert Green, who became a symbol of suffering and resilience in the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina, will be sentenced in federal court Wednesday for his role in a house-flipping scam ...

NEW ORLEANS — Today, the Lower 9th Ward is a dreary landscape of deserted ... But to many people who lived there, the Lower 9th is not a symbol. It is a 22-block neighborhood, once home to ...