Along with dozens of other Latino men in suburban Maryland, Jose Salas was recruited by a subcontractor to go to Mississippi and Louisiana to do arduous cleanup work after Hurricane Katrina two years ago.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 29 -- President Bush marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by trying to reassure the people of the Gulf Coast that they are not forgotten, declaring that "the town is coming back" at an appearance Wednesday in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward.

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...

It has been two years since Michael D. Brown's exit strategy got blown away by Hurricane Katrina.

ARABI, La. -- Honie Bauer was the first to move back.

CASITAS, Mexico, Aug. 22 -- Now, they wait. Wait and worry.

FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico, Aug. 21 -- In the grim darkness, as 160 mph winds lashed this small city, she lay in pain.

A hurricane in the headlines and drizzly skies over the District are reminders that late August can be lively when it comes to the weather. Occasionally, even deadly.

FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico, Aug. 21 -- Hurricane Dean roared early Tuesday into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where some campesinos refused to leave their thatch-roofed shacks in rural villages and brandished machetes at evacuation crews.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 19 -- Hurricane Dean's massive eye skidded just south of Jamaica on Sunday, but its ferocious outer bands still socked the island with 145 mph winds that shredded roofs, shattered windows and toppled trees.

NEW ORLEANS -- A $3 million experiment by the Army Corps of Engineers this week will simulate the conditions that caused critical levee failures during Hurricane Katrina, leading to disastrous flooding.

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7 -- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused far more dislocation to Louisiana's population than previously estimated, with tens of thousands more people being forced to relocate than previous population counts have suggested, according to a study released Tuesday by the Louisiana Re...