Connick breaks ground on New Orleans project
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Actor and musician Harry Connick Jr. returned to his hometown to break ground on Thursday on a project aimed at restoring a New Orleans music scene damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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National Basketball Association superstars will set aside slam dunks and 3-pointers this weekend to lift lumber and swing hammers as they help New Orleans rebuild from Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans was awarded next year's ArenaBowl, the city's first professional championship game since Hurricane Katrina.
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The All-Star game will generate an estimated $80-$90 million for the city of New Orleans, which is still recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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President Bush said Tuesday he wanted to celebrate the spirit of New Orleans. He chose to do so with Leah Chase, considered this proud, still-struggling city's Queen of Creole, known as much for her famous cooking as her warm personality.
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Tucked inside a $14.4 billion blueprint for the rebuilding of New Orleans is a proposal for a Hurricane Katrina monument on a grand, "Homeric" scale, like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
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You might be surprised how far you have to drive from New Orleans, LA to get to the Gulf of Mexico.  Following     the west bank of the Mississippi River along Hwy 23, you go through the separate and well-separated towns of     Belle Chasse, Pointe a la Hache, Port Sulphur, Empire, Boothville, and finally over 60 miles from New Orleans     the tiny oilfield supply and marina town of Venice.    At Empire the highway goes over a pretty tall bridge and on the other side of the canal, beyond the levee     system, Katrina's storm surge came through with a vengeance.  The roads have been cleared but everywhere along     them are the twisted skeletons of steel buildings with vegetation hanging out of shattered second-story     windows.  A refrigerator sits atop the flooded husk of a house.  A perfect square of fenceless pickets     surrounds a perfectly bare concrete slab.  The occasional forlorn FEMA trailer can be spotted parked on one of     many slabs in a field of such slabs that was once a neighborhood.  The carcass of a cow is wedged improbably     in the canopy of a tree twenty feet up.    What is striking is not that the landscape looks like this; most of the coastline of Louisiana and Mississippi     experienced such damage.  What is striking is that it looked like this when I visited last week, in August     2006, almost an entire year after the storm came through.
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Mayor Ray Nagin, in his first State of the City address since Hurricane Katrina, said Wednesday that New Orleans is a city on the mend, despite broken promises from the state and federal governments.
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A new superintendent is vowing to transform the battered public school system in New Orleans.
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Fifteen months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his city, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said on Monday he has hired a disaster recovery expert amid widespread criticism that rebuilding has been too slow.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...
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With the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina behind him and the task of rebuilding New Orleans' shattered economy just beginning, Mayor Ray Nagin will lead a two-day pitch to New York's investment community designed to bring much-needed business to the devastated city.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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Mayor Ray Nagin told a Senate committee Monday that the rebuilding of New Orleans is getting shortchanged in light of the billions poured into the war in Iraq, and he suggested racism is part of the explanation.
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Two years after Katrina, prominent New Orleanians give their thoughts on rebuilding and recovery
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On Saturday, New Orleansâs biggest and most lavish Mardi Gras parade will pass through the heart of the city for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flooded much of its traditional route.
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The theme of championship week has been curiosity; concern over the healing process of New Orleans, a great city that was turned inside out by Hurricane Katrina.