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Authorities ordered 1.8 million people to evacuate the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Dennis approached. NPR's Chris Arnold in Mobile, Ala., talked with some of the people who had to do so.

After the Trump administration announced plans to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, many families were thrown into limbo — including that of one Florida Gulf Coast University student.

A report released Friday shows that red tide continues to creep northward along Florida's Gulf Coast, clear up the Florida Panhandle to Navarre Pier, near Pensacola.

Lee Hill, of NPR's Tell Me More, offers a slide show of images by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Ted Jackson depicting very different disasters along the Gulf Coast.

The worst of Hurricane Ivan seems to be over for residents of Mobile, Ala., where the storm made landfall early Thursday morning. Several storm-related deaths and heavy damage are reported in the Florida Panhandle, which is now bearing the brunt of the storm. Hear NPR's Adam Hochberg.

Yes, tsunamis, although with low frequency, can happen and affect the East Coast. They would be triggered by different mechanisms.

While Hurricane Issac is less powerful than Katrina which struck seven years ago, it has already cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people. In addition water has topped a levee in southeastern Louisiana.

People along a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico coastline are making preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm is headed toward New Orleans, and is scheduled to develop into a hurricane that could make landfall as early as Tuesday.

The St. Clare School in Waveland, Miss., was demolished by Hurricane Katrina. But the Roman Catholic school has bounced back with help from"Santas" across the country.

Media coverage after the storm focused on New Orleans, but the damage was just as bad, and sometimes worse, in Mississippi. Ten years on, slow recovery in places like East Biloxi has left many behind.