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Updated: 14 hours ago
|By Rob Masson
Four Louisiana parishes landed in the bottom 10 in terms of population loss in the year following Hurricane Ida's landfall.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 3:46 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Medline cut the ribbon on a $72 million distribution facility.
Updated: Mar. 29, 2023 at 5:39 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Mayor Cantrell also said there is nothing inappropriate about her security team members running her personal errands.
Updated: Mar. 28, 2023 at 4:17 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Father Otis Young and church assistant Ruth Prats were found “burned beyond recognition” in downtown Covington last November.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 5:03 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The steps are aimed at helping homeowners find coverage amid an exodus of insurance companies from Louisiana.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 7:54 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The pumps were designed to last 35 years and installed only five years ago.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 4:16 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
"What does it take to move forward? I just don’t know.”
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Rep. Hollis is proposing a new law that would lower the threshold needed to recall an elected official in Louisiana based on the number of people who voted in the election.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 7:08 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Councilmembers said it's time to address the city's crime, street work and housing issues
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 8:02 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Progress and struggles continue in Ida-torn town of Jean Lafitte
Updated: Mar. 16, 2023 at 8:13 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The city’s independent Police Monitor says it will not investigate alleged missteps in the Jeffery Vappie investigation.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 5:48 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
John Alario and Trina Edwards are making plans for a small wedding after dating for just over a year.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2023 at 4:36 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
New developments in the prosecution of 4 teens arrested for the carjacking death of 73-year-old Linda Frickey last year.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2023 at 4:40 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Budget cuts at Louisiana Lighthouse has led to layoffs, leaving many clients who provide services for the visually impaired scrambling for replacements to help people cope with their disabilities.
Updated: Feb. 28, 2023 at 5:12 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Veteran election attorney says removing voter names after recall petition filed, is tall order
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 11:09 AM CST
|By Rob Masson
Harris is accused of the brutal Feb. 1 carjacking of realtor Kelleye Rhein at the Mid City Costco fueling station.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 4:41 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Councilwoman Helena Moreno says that Mayor LaToya Cantrell should pay back taxpayers over $50,000 for a mailer that a legal analyst says was purely political.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2023 at 6:25 AM CST
|By Rob Masson
Orleans DA Jason Williams has promised an "extensive" review of cases Emily Maw has been involved in.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 10:49 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
For more than 100 years, a group of Catholic nuns has shaped the lives of hundreds of students in New Orleans in the tradition of Saint Katharine Drexel.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 9:07 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
City tourism leaders expect 95% hotel occupancy this weekend, not counting hundreds of people in town staying in Airbnb’s or with friends.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Real estate experts say the building could be a natural for Air BnBs, especially since the city has been encountering resistance from residential areas that don’t want them in their neighborhoods.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 10:05 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Tommie Powell III has been paid over $5,000 a month while he awaits trial on a juvenile sex crime indictment.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2023 at 10:04 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
A blind man with a vision collected tandem bicycles and a posse of biking enthusiasts willing to guide, pedal, and steer blind riders
Updated: Feb. 13, 2023 at 3:44 PM CST
|By Marchaund Jones and Rob Masson
It’s a situation that the coroner’s office says is getting worse.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 8:20 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Mardi Gras goers will hear one song, perhaps more than any other. Professor Longhair’s Big Chief is a carnival anthem, and his daughter is determined to keep her father’s legacy alive.
Updated: Feb. 9, 2023 at 4:32 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Five people were injured and over 30 homes were heavily damaged or destroyed when an EF-2 tornado touched down in the village of Tangipahoa Wednesday night (Feb. 8).
Updated: Feb. 8, 2023 at 6:09 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Jefferson Parish coroner Gerry Cvitanovich said 80 percent of the parish's overdose deaths last year resulted from fentanyl
Updated: Feb. 7, 2023 at 6:12 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Currently, there are 922 officers in the department. In the first five weeks of the new year, 12 officers have turned in their badges.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2023 at 4:33 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Mardi Gras rules concerning smaller krewes are “works in progress" that councilmembers are hoping to shore up.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
After spending almost a million dollars to ramp up New Orleans police recruitment efforts, city council members say they are not impressed with the results.
Updated: Feb. 2, 2023 at 5:22 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
The New Orleans City Council voted to give the police chief authority to shut down nuisance businesses that could be contributing to the city’s crime crisis.
Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 6:01 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Owners of Kias and Hyundais are looking for alternative solutions to a chronic theft problem, popularized by a group of thieves on TikTok.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2023 at 8:50 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Thousands of people turned out in the Marigny and the French Quarter to pay tribute to a parade honoring that big furry animal from Star Wars.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 4:58 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Matt Dennis, who runs the city’s busiest monitoring program, says due to failures in the juvenile justice system, only a fraction of violent youths are being monitored.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:40 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Crime watchdogs say problems with crime in New Orleans go beyond the mayor's claims of COVID and gun proliferation.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 5:07 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Demolition crews on Friday (Jan. 20) worked to take down a strip mall that housed an old bar in the heart of Fat City.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 4:40 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Several carnival krewes and their leaders are gearing up for a return to their traditional routes. The mayor’s coordinating council reports significant progress in making it happen, but the security plan is not yet finalized.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 6:16 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Man cave fire claims life of Pigeon Town man
Updated: Jan. 12, 2023 at 6:07 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Public officials are sorting through a myriad of ownership issues and persistent problems slowing West End redevelopment plans to a crawl.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 5:38 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
If all goes well, the new owners say the expressway eyesore could become an attractive new golf facility by early next year.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 5:24 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Several local law enforcement agencies say they are unable to provide supplemental Carnival parade security
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 5:49 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
One councilmember says Mayor LaToya Cantrell should declare a state of emergency due to the rampant crime problem.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 4:35 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Jefferson Parish officials say this year’s edition will be bigger than ever, with new road improvements and celebrity monarchs ready to go.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 6:06 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
“We just lost our greatest blessing and here we are getting ready to welcome another child into the world,” said Lacey Scarborough.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 9:10 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Woodfork is announcing two new deputy superintendents as she lays the groundwork for a more effective department, which she hopes to grow by 300 officers within the next two years.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:42 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
The New Orleans City Council takes steps to ensure a national search for a new police chief.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 7:19 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Sewerage and water board to address old West end leak
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 2:38 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
In the past twenty years, the Hornets, which morphed into the Pelicans, have provided countless thrills for thousands of fans across the gulf coast.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 5:50 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Comedian Brandon 'Boogie B.' Montrell, 43, was fatally shot Dec. 23 in the parking lot of the Rouses grocery store at 701 Baronne St. in New Orleans' Warehouse District.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 9:23 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
On a frigid day when most people try to stay in, duck hunters in Madisonville loaded up and headed out.
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