“New Orleans is a two-way embrace,” says Ben Jaffe, the director of historic French Quarter jazz-club institution Preservation Hall, when I ask him what it takes to endure here. “It comes ...

NEW ORLEANS – Developers are tearing down the Six Flags amusement complex in New Orleans two decades after it was ... An estimated 1,833 people died from Hurricane Katrina and the flooding ...

Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm with sustained winds in excess of 135 mph. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Hurricane Katrina rampaged New Orleans ... Texas, after a small group ...

The abandoned Six Flags theme park in New Orleans will finally be demolished nearly 20 years after Hurricane Katrina trashed ...

Why it matters: The abandoned theme park is one of the city's most visible reminders left from Hurricane Katrina ... New ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ... a semblance of normalcy. New Orleans continued its tradition of a Mardi Gras celebration the year after Katrina. Businesses reopened ...

NEW ORLEANS – Developers are tearing down the Six Flags amusement complex in New Orleans two decades after it was decimated during Hurricane Katrina ... The area is finally undergoing a much-needed ...