Katrina rebuilding is moving ahead
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Five-gallon buckets of paint and primer are stacked high near the entrance of The Home Depot, occupying a spot once packed with the pressure washers and bleach that were needed to get rid of the mold, mildew and muck left by Hurricane Katrina.
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Nearly 10,000 emergency housing trailers that were intended to be sent to the Gulf Coast to help Hurricane Katrina victims have been freed up for other uses.
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Top federal officials said Saturday they're still committed to restoring the Everglades and ready to move forward on several key projects.
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Newly re-elected Mayor Ray Nagin expressed confidence that political opponents and business leaders would unite to rebuild this hurricane-stricken city.
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NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue toured the hurricane-damaged Superdome on Tuesday with Saints owner Tom Benson and Gov. Kathleen Blanco, and was encouraged with the progress that has been made.
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FLORIDIANS today began to clean up after their third hurricane in five weeks, while Alabamans looked to rebuild their condos and beach homes along the coast.
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Two years have passed since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in August 2005, and much of the region is still recovering from the damage done to homes and communities.
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When hurricane  Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of  small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the  spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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Home improvement chains are benefiting from Hurricane Charley's aftermath as residents begin the process of repairing their homes from the damage.
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Louisiana's grant program to help people rebuild homes damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita is estimated to be as much as $5 billion short as the six-month Atlantic storm season began Friday.
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Four buildings are up and occupied. Three more buildings are under construction. Another is on the drawing board. Three other projects are on a waiting list.
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A week after Hurricane Katrina, a FEMA official in charge of streamlining the flow of disaster aid issued a directive that would have cut through the red tape and expedited a staggering 1,029 rebuilding projects and $5.3 billion.
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NEW ORLEANS -- Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans's population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, a new report says.
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Only over the past year has the public begun to see physical progress on the Roanoke River flood reduction project, a fact that might frustrate  people who have wanted to see better flood control a lot sooner.
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President George W. Bush on Wednesday declared "better days" ahead for New Orleans despite complaints over slow rebuilding and amid lingering political fallout two years after Hurricane Katrina's destruction.
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By AMY WOLD  When a federal coastal restoration task force meets in January, it will consider spending $34 million to build two restoration projects in the coming year.  A project in Jefferson Parish and one in St.
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Hurricane Katrina has many legacies for the Bush White House, none pleasant. One is the guarantee that as soon as disaster strikes in the United States, President Bush's every move is closely scrutinized to gauge the speed and tone of his response to the suffering.