KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, then Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm deployed more than 500 Michigan National Guard members to the Gulf Coast along with ...
GULFPORT, Miss. -- Like other Gulf Coast cities after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, Gulfport required residents to build at higher elevations and enforced a stronger building code. But most residents near ...
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mississippi House Speaker Billy McCoy toured the devastated coastal areas, meeting with residents and fellow legislators. McCoy assessed the damage and sought ways ...
Chancellor Mason doesn’t need documentaries, pictures or social media posts to remind him of what happened 20 years ago. Though he was a mere 12-year-old boy living in Gulfport, Miss., at 32, he calls ...
The Weather Channel meteorologist who famously rode out Hurricane Katrina near the beach in Gulfport is in New Orleans this week for the 20-year anniversary of the monster storm. Jim Cantore, along ...
Hurricane Katrina left scars across Louisiana and Mississippi that are still evident 20 years later. Katrina claimed at least 1,392 lives — both during the storm and in its aftermath — and was America ...
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the City of Gulfport gave tax breaks to people and businesses looking to build back. But, 20 years after the storm, some worry the ...
GULFPORT, Miss. — 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 ...
But it was far from certain that people would return after 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which killed 238 people in Mississippi and left only concrete slabs in many areas. With beachfront rebuilding ...