Hurricane Ida promoted evacuations in New Orleans and the surrounding coastal region Friday as it moved over Cuba threatening to slam into Louisiana as a Category 4 on Sunday.

Ida slammed into Cuba as a hurricane and is expected to grow into a Category 3 one due to hit New Orleans on the 16th anniversary of Katrina.

A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to "catastrophic transmission damage," according to Entergy New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that was still unfolding and promised ...

New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell warned residents that “time is not on our side” as Hurricane Ida makes its way to Louisiana.

Here are the changes New Orleans has adopted after Hurricane Katrina, and where holes in hurricane preparedness persist.

Photo caption: Infographic of Hurricane Ida’s expected trajectory as of Aug. 27, 2021. Photo courtesy the National Hurricane Center. “Hurricane Ida was an eye-opener,” Colin Arnold, director of the ...

The prospect of “another Katrina” has haunted New Orleans, and the rest of the nation. By Richard FaussetKaty Reckdahl and Chelsea Brasted NEW ORLEANS — As Hurricane Ida began violently ...

The levees, floodwalls and floodgates that protect New Orleans held up against Hurricane Ida's fury, passing their toughest test since an upgraded system was put in place after Hurricane Katrina.

Weather Hurricane Ida strikes Louisiana; New Orleans hunkers down The Category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph hit on the same date Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi 16 years earlier.