By Mary K. Reinhart, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz. Aug. 29--EVTRIB.COM See multimedia package "Being Katrina." Two years after Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and tossed nearly 3,000 families into the Arizona deserts, most of them remain here and hundreds of them still flounder. Some are homeless.

More than a year since Katrina made landfall, the Gulf Coast region is still struggling to recover. Tucson's French Quarter, 3146 E. Grant Road, wants to help.

By AMANDA MILKOVITS Journal Staff Writer The state sent disaster teams and took in evacuees, while residents donated cash and supplies. * * * One year ago today, the 1,500-mile distance between Rhode Island and southern Louisiana and Mississippi suddenly seemed a lot smaller.

By COLLEEN WRIGHT FOR THE DAILY MAIL This time last year, Hurricane Katrina was approaching the Gulf Coast as a category 4 storm, almost ready to slam into the coast, swamp New Orleans and other cities and change the lives of thousands of people.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, leading online parenting website http://www.momready.com/, is opening the Los Angeles chapter of http://www.beenthereclearinghouse.com/. Here Katrina evacuees currently living in L.A.