WESA

New train connects Mississippi towns 20 years after Katrina

Amtrak is returning to the Mississippi Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago. Cities along that route are still living with the storm's aftermath. Stephan Bisaha ...
The Root

Bake Sales for Biloxi

In Moss Point, Miss., about 30 miles east of Biloxi, the Prairie family needs materials to finish repairing their home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Unlike New Orleans, where 80 percent of the ...
Daily Press

A Mississippi city’s tax break spurred post-Katrina building. But will homes stand the next storm?

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Rocking on his front porch overlooking the Mississippi Sound, former Gulfport Mayor Billy Hewes questions how anyone wouldn’t want to live there. “People are always going to ...
WESA

The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 'ground zero' for Hurricane Katrina

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-size satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, ...
Yahoo

20 years later, what have we learned from Hurricane Katrina?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water stands in much of the area around downtown New Orleans seven days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Sept. 5, ...
AOL

Sculptor turns Katrina-damaged trees into art

BILOXI, Miss. (WJTV) – The effects of Hurricane Katrina have lasted well beyond just the immediate week and months when the storm hit the Mississippi coast in 2005. One phenomenon of the storm was the ...