By: (AP) Six weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit and flooded much of the city, The Times-Picayune has returned to its home plant.
Tuesday's edition was printed on the newspaper's regular presses after four weeks of printing at the Mobile (Ala.) Press-Register, also owned by Advance Newspapers, and two weeks at the New York Times-owned The Courier of Houma (La.).
"We're thrilled to be back where we belong," said Publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. "We thank our readers and advertisers for their patience in the aftermath of the hurricane. We want our return to send a strong message that we believe in the rebuilding and the resurgence of the New Orleans metropolitan area and that we're part of that effort."
Some 240 employees of the newspaper left the building in the back of newspaper delivery trucks on the morning after the hurricane, as water from the 17th Street Canal breach rose around the plant.
The Times-Picayune left a team of editors, reporters, and photographers in the city while other employees drove to Baton Rouge and established a temporary base there. This week, they returned to the fully functioning and thoroughly cleaned facility in New Orleans.
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