Aug. 29, 2025, Top Headlines for New Orleans

WGNO News at 5 p.m.

WGNO News at 5 p.m.

WGNO News at 5 p.m.

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, many are still reliving it daily.

City of New Orleans officials and community leaders gathered Friday, Aug. 29, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with an annual wreath laying ceremony.

Placing your bets for LSU vs Clemson

The LSU Tigers take on the Clemson Tigers for the first football game of the season on Saturday.

The Tigers will don a Peggy Martin rose sticker on their helmets

20th Anniversary march and second line starting at the levee wall breach in the Lower 9th Ward

This research facility studies the Mississippi River and our coast

"There was nothing here. It was just devastated," store owner Lloyd Lincoln said.