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AP reporters reflect on Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later

Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall in New Orleans in August 2005

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025

A Mississippi city's tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm?

A decade after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, one Mississippi city began offering property tax breaks to encourage building near the waterfront

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025

‘A gay Mardi Gras’: the lesbian pop-up bar in New Orleans that was born after Hurricane Katrina

Grrlspot, a monthly event in New Orleans, stemmed from a desire to create spaces for queer women to gather after the storm devastated the city in 2005

The Guardian - US · Aug 27, 2025

Hurricane Katrina: 3 painful lessons for emergency management are increasingly important 20 years later

Hurricane Katrina looms large in the history of American emergency management, both for what went wrong as the disaster unfolded and for the policy changes it triggered.

The Conversation · Aug 25, 2025

FEMA staff warn Trump officials’ actions risk a Katrina-level disaster

More than 180 employees said the agency’s abilities were being impacted by climate science censorship and ‘interference’ from Homeland Security

The Independent UK · Aug 25, 2025

How Hurricane Katrina shaped these New Orleans educators

Hurricane Katrina changed New Orleans' education system forever, creating the first all-charter school district in the U.S. The Associated Press spoke with three survivors about their experiences

The Independent UK · Aug 24, 2025

One of Hurricane Katrina’s most important lessons isn’t about storm preparations – it’s about injustice

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, the images still haunt us: entire neighborhoods underwater, families stranded on rooftops and a city brought to its knees.

The Conversation · Aug 19, 2025

Hurricane Katrina Devastated New Orleans. Some of It Came Back Better.

Hurricane Katrina was a chapter in the history of man's struggle both to control nature and to accept what he cannot control.

Reason · Aug 17, 2025

‘There’s New Orleans before and after’: revisiting Hurricane Katrina in a new docuseries

With the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaching, a powerful five-part docuseries, produced by Ryan Coogler, takes a look back at the many lives affected

The Guardian - US · Jul 27, 2025

Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time review – a gripping, epic look at the New Orleans tragedy 20 years on

Traci A Curry’s documentary explores how political impotence, media distortion and America’s racial polarisation turned a disaster into something much worse

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2025