Hurricane Ida peeled roofs off homes, flooded some communities and knocked out power to more than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana.. But the New Orleans area's $15 billion federal ...

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.

New Orleans is "in a much better place than 16 years ago," one official said. When Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana, it put storm preparedness measures that were put in place after ...

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.

Officials said Ida's swift intensification to a massive hurricane in just three days left no time to organize a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans' 390,000 residents.

“Hurricane Ida was an eye-opener,” Colin Arnold, director of the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, told Verite in a recent interview. Twenty-one New Orleans residents ...

As the sky clears after the departure of Hurricane Ida, New Orleans remains mostly without power except for those with generator power seen behind the darkened Caesars Superdome Monday, Aug. 30, 2021.

The mayor of New Orleans on Friday night warned residents to “hunker down” ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Ida — which is threatening to slam the city as a dangerous Category 4 storm ...

WDSU Chief Meteorologist Emeritus Margaret Orr reflects on what we learned from Hurricane Ida, the first major hurricane to test the New Orleans levee system since improvements from Hurricane Katrina.