Growing up in New Orleans' historic 9th Ward, Mia Adams heard stories about how Hurricane Betsy devastated the neighborhood in 1965. Adams, now staying in Georgia, is trying to reach members of ...

Kent Montgomery settled in for bad weather last week under a roof in the Lower 9th Ward that’s been gashed since 2005.

Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward took to the streets Saturday to memorialize the thousands who lost their lives and to protest what they call a lack of recovery in their community.

Mold is rapidly devouring interiors. The question now is whether the Lower Ninth Ward, which was devastated 40 years ago by Hurricane Betsy, should be resuscitated again.

Ron Favre dances next to the Industrial Canal levee breach in the Lower 9th Ward in remembrance of the 11th anniversary of the federal levee failures following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, La ...

Flooding in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans after Hurricane Betsy. (NOAA Image) Tragically, Hurricane Betsy claimed the lives of 76 people and left hundreds injured, making it one of the ...

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of StoryCorps, we revisit a mother's conversation with her son, who decided to open the only grocery store in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina.

A street sign barely breaks the surface in the flooded Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans after a levee on the nearby Industrial Canal overflowed following Hurricane Rita.

Hurricane Betsy, which until 2005 was the nastiest storm to menace New Orleans in the city's modern history, has received a posthumous promotion. Long categorized as a Category 3 hurricane on the S… ...

NEW ORLEANS - It sounds eerily familiar: levee breaches during a hurricane that sent water pouring into the Lower Ninth Ward, parts of Gentilly, St. Bernard Parish and eastern New Orleans. Only ...

Track Hurricane Betsy's path here. Due to the flooding and storm surge, Betsy became one of the most expensive storms up to that date, causing $1.4 billion in damage.