As the humanitarian crisis recedes, financial ruin will step up to threaten many of Hurricane Katrina's victims, especially those whose homes are flooded. Flood insurance is not included in ...

Ten years later, some Katrina victims better, others "still stuck" August 28, 2015 / 7:03 AM EDT / CBS News Saturday will mark 10 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the U.S.

Allison is one of the poster children that illustrate water is the deadliest weapon a tropical storm or hurricane has. This ...

A month after Katrina, most of the nearly 1,000 dead in Louisiana lie anonymously in a morgue because authorities have released only a handful of names, and also, perhaps, because many of the ...

A reporter from the New Orleans Times-Picayune discusses the slow and ongoing process of identifying the victims of Hurricane Katrina, four months after the storm hit the Gulf Coast.

The unclaimed bodies of close to 80 victims of Hurricane Katrina have finally been entombed - nearly three years after the storm - by a group of funeral home owners who said they took it upon ...

JACKSON, Miss. — For several years after Hurricane Katrina, ads selling FEMA trailers were on the Internet and in publications. At its peak, there were more than 45,000 temporary housing units ...

Katrina also retains its rank as the third-highest death toll from a hurricane in recorded U.S. history, behind the estimated 8,000 dead in the 1900 Galveston hurricane, and the more than 2,500 ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WKRG) — A Hurricane Katrina victim’s family finally has closure as Tonie Waltman got to hold her mom’s ashes. It’s a full-circle moment for the family of Tonette Wa… ...

Brad Pitt is facing a significant legal challenge as a lawsuit filed by Hurricane Katrina victims progresses. The actor's charitable housing project in New Orleans has come under scrutiny.

The legal team for some victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has been granted their request for vital documents from Brad Pitt and his Make It Right Foundation in an ongoing $20.5 million ...