NEW ORLEANS – After Hurricane Katrina, actor Brad Pitt jumped into action to help house families in one of the hardest hit areas: the Lower Ninth Ward. Through his “Make It Right” foundation, the star ...

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NEW ORLEANS — Almost 20 years after Hurricane Katrina hit the city, a drive through New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward takes you past boarded homes, empty, overgrown lots and block after block where there ...

LINES COULD SERVE RIDERS IN THAT COMMUNITY. AN OLD SCHOOL IN THE LOWER NINTH WARD COULD SOON SERVE AS THE NEW TRAINING ACADEMY FOR THE NOPD, AS WELL AS THE NOFD AND EMS. MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR HIGH ...

THE RAIN CHANCES DECREASING. MORE ON OUR KATRINA COVERAGE FOR YOU. NOW WE KNOW IT HAS BEEN A POWERFUL LINEUP OF EVENTS TODAY, MARKING 20 YEARS SINCE COMMUNITIES ACROSS OUR ENTIRE AREA CHANGED FOREVER.

A recent gathering in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward featured former Vice President Al Gore and New Orleans rapper Mia X. As the nation’s news outlets cover the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, ...

Until recently, Johnny Davis III’s commute to school took all of a few minutes. He’d walk down his street in the Lower 9th Ward past vacant lots and well-tended homes, cut through the shade at Oliver ...

A shuttered high school in the Lower Ninth Ward may get new life through the New Orleans Police Department. Martin Luther King High School in the Lower Ninth Ward was closed in May by NOLA Public ...

No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound. There's still an... 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth ...