What started as Tropical Depression Twelve on Aug. 23, 2005, over the Greater Antilles would soon become one of the deadliest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Traveling through ...

Nope, it's not random—hurricane names are decided years in advance. Learn how, and who gets to name them.

How Hurricane Katrina exposed failures in disaster response and changed FEMA, evacuations, and emergency planning in America.

Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...

It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, the costliest and fourth-deadliest hurricane in U.S. history, hit New Orleans as a Category 3 storm. Ivor van Heerden may know more about Louisiana’s ...

Twenty years ago, on Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina cemented itself in history as one of the deadliest and most devastating disasters to strike the United States. Katrina claimed the lives of 1,392 ...

The most valuable words I ever heard about leadership were provided by retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, whom I met in 2010 at RAND’s Washington, D.C., offices. He’s best known for bringing ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) became a symbol of the government's failure to prevent damage and save lives after Hurricane Katrina. Here, a plea spray-painted on plywood sits in front ...

“God wanted me to be there,” Shelton Alexander says. "He wanted me to tell this story” Angelina Liu is an editorial intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in The Daily Texan and The Austin ...