BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - After Hurricane Katrina, Baton Rouge became a refuge for families from New Orleans. Trying to find a home became a new challenge. Jill Roby was only a couple of years in as a ...

ESPN's Chris Fowler mentioned the role Baton Rouge played as a safe haven and sheltering place for Katrina evacuees in 2005 from New Orleans on the broadcast. LSU joined Tulane, who also had plans to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Friday marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, and many in the community are taking time to recall the tragedy and trauma left in its wake. Today, the Interfaith Federation ...

Baton Rouge, La. (WGNO) — During Saturday’s season opener against the Clemson Tigers on Aug. 30, the LSU Tigers football team will wear a special sticker on their helmets to commemorate the 20th ...

Former Mayor-President Kip Holden was in his first year of his first term in office when he watched Hurricane Katrina move into the Gulf. He activated the Emergency Operations Center and called to ask ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Goods donated by Bozeman-area residents and businesses to help Hurricane Katrina victims will ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Ginger Woechan is a familiar face in Mobile. She’s an artist. She even painted FOX10’s Mardi Gras float. She lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast when Katrina demolished her ...

(The Center Square) − Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, the rows of pastel “Katrina Cottages” scattered across Louisiana still stand as reminders of both government ambition and bureaucratic ...

As the American Red Cross mounts the biggest disaster-relief effort in its history, international relief groups, health charities, education organizations, and many other charities are pitching in to ...

Kay W. Wilkins, who leads the Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the American Red Cross, spent Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath isolated from most of her employees, learning only days after the storm ...

“The Lord was working out for us obviously because she's still here today,” Paula Norris Welch tells PEOPLE about her daughter Kayla, now 20 Andy Levin; Courtesy Kayla Welch Kayla Welch was born 14 ...