The Lower Ninth Ward, hit hard by Katrina, struggles to rebuild. August 26, 2010 — -- Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters ...

A flawed shipping project involving excavations at the Industrial Canal allowed Hurricane Katrina's surge to breach the floodwall in two places, causing massive flooding in the Lower 9th Ward and ...

“That portion of the Lower Ninth Ward that didn’t come back ... He’d put on a new roof after Katrina, but died soon after Hurricane Isaac in 2012, she said. “The old values are gone ...

Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser returned to New Orleans on the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ... an audio slide show from the city’s Ninth Ward, she looks at what has changed ...

The flooded streets and destroyed homes of the New Orleans neighborhood known as the Lower Ninth Ward were among the most powerful and iconic images from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath 10 ...

"Green is a lifelong Lower 9th Ward survivor. He has seen firsthand how his community looked before and after Hurricane Katrina. Nineteen years later, he said he is seeing new homes being built ...

Six years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the ... of the first pioneering commercial investments for the Lower 9th Ward since Katrina. Pierce said big-chain supermarkets are unable to see ...

Here were more examples of the progress made after Hurricane Katrina — and ... “The challenge for the 9th Ward is that, before Katrina, it was the poorest part of the city,” Landrieu said.

"Most of the blighted property down here needs improvement," said Rhea Dokes, who returned to the Ninth Ward two years after evacuating ahead of Hurricane Katrina. “We know that they're trying ...

Each year, a group of Hurricane Katrina survivors gather in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward near the place where the levees blew 15 years ago this week. They read the names of the lives lost in the ...

Our guide was Mary LaCoste, a salty, outspoken woman of 75 who rode out the hurricane in her home ... headed toward the devastated Lower Ninth Ward. "Katrina ripped the mask off our poverty." ...