Even as the nation was reflecting on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another tropical storm hit the same Southern area. Hurricane Isaac’s destruction was tempered by functioning levees, ...

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Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened as it dumped heavy rains on Haiti on Saturday, threatening floods and mudslides, NBC News reported. Lashing rains and high winds were reported along parts of Haiti's ...

NEW ORLEANS - The Army Corps of Engineers says improvements to the New Orleans-area levee system did not cause Hurricane Isaac's storm-surge flooding of areas in Louisiana that were not inundated ...

BERGEN COUNTY — Concerned by the specter of Hurricane Isaac, County Executive Kathleen Donovan cut short her trip to the Republican National Convention in Florida this week. She told PolitickerNJ that ...

Crews in Southern Mississippi Tuesday were removing thousands of dead nutria – rat-like rodents originally from South America – which drowned and washed up on the beaches in the aftermath of Hurricane ...

Sidney Blumenthal, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s unofficial adviser, advised Clinton in 2012 to use an impending hurricane as a prop to make President Obama look good. The founding fathers ...

Tropical storm Isaac is barreling toward the Florida Keys and you only have to look outside your window to see that feeder bands are already affecting Miami-Dade. Before you head out to a store, ...

And I'm Audie Cornish. In New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered this news this afternoon. MAYOR MITCH LANDRIEU: Isaac has now formed into a hurricane so we are officially in the fight and the ...