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It's hard to believe that its been 17 years since 6 Flags New Orleans closed forever. See what it looked like in it's glory days to now.

More than 800,000 have applied for unemployment insurance this year.

Saints "Thank You New Orleans" video on Katrina anniversary will give Who Dats chills.

The reaction to a new opinion piece published by the Chicago Tribune has many in our area fuming as the anniversary of Katrina looms. The columnist, Kristen McQueary, wrote the piece that was originally titled "In Chicago, wishing for a Hurricane Katrina" ...

Congress last year changed the formula the FEMA uses to determine whether loans can be forgiven, and local government agencies throughout the region have had their loans partially or completely canceled.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Justice Department is appealing a judge's decision to order a new trial for five former New Orleans police officers convicted of civil rights violations stemming from deadly shootings on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina...

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A state judge has declined to dismiss elements of a class-action lawsuit against former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, the parish and its Consolidated Drainage District, for the decision to evacuate drainage pump operators hours before Hurricane Katrina's landfall...

A federal appeals court has refused to free a former New Orleans police officer on bond while he awaits a retrial on charges he shot and killed a man without justification outside a strip mall in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

A federal judge is prepared to sentence one of five former police officers who pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

A federal magistrate has ruled a white Mississippi man is mentally unfit to stand trial on charges he fired a shotgun at three black men who were trying to leave New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Writer, filmmaker and photographer Doug Lee was interviewed recently by KPEL's Ken Romero and discussed his latest book.  'On The Hurricane Coast' is available at www.amazon.com and chronicles the history and survival of an older Gulf Coast.

Louisiana's Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has been busy touring the state to remind citizens that it is in their best interest to buy a flood policy under the National Insurance Flood Policy Program.

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is set to release a memoir titled, "Katrina's Secrets: Storms after the Storm."

Work will begin Jan. 24 on the final phase of the Superdome's renovation project.

After taking a break for the Veterans Day holiday, testimony is scheduled to resume this morning in a New Orleans federal courtroom in the trial of five current or former Big Easy cops who are facing charges in the shooting and burning of an unarmed civilian and a subsequent attempt to cover up the incident...