Ex-cop to testify in post-Katrina shootings
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A day after hearing a woman describe the shootings that cost her an arm and killed a family friend, jurors were expected Tuesday to hear from a former New Orleans police lieutenant...
Tales of Katrina told through new museum exhibit
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The $7.5 million exhibit at New Orleans' French Quarter museum recounts tales of the 2005 hurricane, its chaotic aftermath and recovery...
Housing shortage prices some blacks out of New Orleans (VIDEO)
theGRIO VIDEO - With the supply of housing scarce, the cost of rental property has increased by 50 percent since the storm...
Andrew Young on post-Katrina New Orleans: 'Recovery has hardly begun'
theGRIO Q&A - What started out as a request for a few quotes turned into a full-blown discussion about what's changed about the region; what must be done to help...
Obama heralds New Orleans' revival after storm
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - And he pledged: "My administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done."...
Memories of chaos, rebirth 5 years after Katrina
SHELL BEACH, La. (AP) - Memorials were planned across the Gulf Coast from New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to Biloxi, Miss., to mourn the hundreds who died when Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005...
Pontchartrain Park sets the bar for NOLA redevelopment
VIDEO - The Pontchartrain Park project is at the core of a massive undertaking to acquire and sell 4,500 formerly occupied lots ...
Wendell Pierce plays dual roles as actor and activist in New Orleans
VIDEO - Fearful that his beloved community would cease to exist, Wendell Pierce answered the community's call ...
Katrina's lessons still not learned 5 years later
OPINION - Without a shift in how energy policies are made and by whom, our disastrous trajectory toward peril will be unabated...
Slideshow: Pontchartrain Park on the rise, but still recovering
SLIDESHOW - As the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches, residents say today that Pontchartrain Park is still not close to where it was before the storm....
