On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, closing many businesses including the Six Flags New Orleans amusement park, which ended up under 12 feet of floodwater for weeks. The park never ...

Discover the eerie remains of the abandoned Six Flags Theme Park in New Orleans, left to decay since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This once-thriving amusement park now stands frozen in time, with ...

BEFORE: New Orleans on August 26, 2000. (NASA image by Jesse Allen using data provided by USGS Center for EROS and the Landsat Project Science Office at Goddard Space Flight Center.) 80% of New ...

Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, survivors can still describe in detail what they faced in the days after the storm devastated the Gulf Coast. In New Orleans, many initially thought they had ...

New Orleans City Council members have agreed to spend $5 million on infrastructure work on the former Six Flags site in New Orleans East, as the Bayou Phoenix redevelopment team works to bring the ...

For many displaced by Hurricane Katrina, distance did not diminish their bond with the city they left behind, even as they built new lives. By Rick Rojas Reporting from New Orleans Night after night ...

1:55 p.m. Aug. 29, 2025: This story updated with new details from today's event. NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast with catastrophic storm surge and flooding, New Orleans marked the storm’s anniversary Friday with solemn ...

NEW ORLEANS — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast, New Orleans is set to commemorate the anniversary Friday with memorials, performances and a parade to honor those who ...