Six Flags New Orleans was once a bustling amusement park but now stands as a ghostly relic since Hurricane Katrina. Abandoned in 2005 ... stories of a grand past, haunted by legends of ghosts ...

Why it matters: The abandoned theme park is one of the city's most visible reminders left from Hurricane Katrina's ...

mainly black residents abandoned to fend for themselves. More than a decade later, have the lessons of Katrina been learned? New Orleans and the surrounding area were evacuated days before Katrina ...

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,000 people and causing more than $100 billion of damage. In New Orleans, the failure of the levee system resulted ...

Making landfall on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans with enormous force. The city had faced deadly storms previously, including Hurricane Betsy in 1965, which caused extensive ...