New Orleans City Council unanimously approved changes to a 1972 ordinance, breaking Lucky Dogs' long-standing monopoly on push cart food sales in the French Quarter
Patients and doctors say the health insurance claims process is increasingly lacking humanity as one major insurance company is taken to court over its use of a computer program.
Fenton, Louisiana, got 92.5% of its revenue from fines and forfeitures in a single year. The average municipality in the U.S. gets 1.7%. That means this village of 226 people has one of the highest percentages in the country.
By Lee Zurik, Dannah Sauer, Matt McBride and Greg Larose
Data from state health records and GPS readings from S&WB samplers’ vehicles raises questions about whether hundreds of testing stops took the time needed for reliable results.
A Louisiana Illuminator review of public records has found dangerous flaws in New Orleans water intakes that have been allowed to linger for several years.
The sister of a woman fatally shot at The Willows apartments has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging inadequate security and unsafe conditions contributed to her sister's death
Text messages seem to contradict the NOPD's statement on why Mayor LaToya Cantrell needed NOPD escorts for Essence Festival Weekend. Documents show several days she had more officers protecting her than were on duty in entire police districts.
Voters will have the opportunity to decide on an amendment aimed at ending tax exemptions for non-profits that own unsafe housing in response to recent disclosures of substandard living conditions.
One of the men listed on official state documents as a manager and officer of Spring View Medical Clinic, says he's working day and night to help the clients of the now closed business. We tracked down Robbie Duncan after our first reports on the clinic, to find out if he's got any plan to help the dozens of men who say they're still being billed thousands of dollars and not receiving any treatment.
The Louisiana Attorney General's office now says it's contacting other state attorney generals about its investigation into Spring View Medical Clinic.
Former Parc Fontaine tenant sues Tennessee-based religious non-profit over deplorable living conditions, joining a growing legal battle against the organization.
A Texas-based company that produces industrial fertilizers, wants to open a new manufacturing plant along the West Bank of the Mississippi River in Waggaman, Louisiana.
The Louisiana Attorney General’s office launches an investigation into a former Metairie clinic that some local men say promised results for a problem they long kept hidden.
St. Tammany Parish Coroner Dr. Charles Preston accuses FOX 8, a group of concerned citizens, and former employees of trying to undermine his office. The accusations came in a recent radio interview and follow a series of FOX 8 reports that raised questions about whether his office was losing money by performing autopsies for surrounding parishes.
An InvestigateTV analysis of Consumer Product Safety Commission data shows that since 2000, the agency has had to re-announce the recall of at least 46 products because the original alert did not reach the ears of consumers and, in many cases, continued to cause harm.
A New Orleans man narrowly survives a shooting incident at The Willows apartments, calling for increased security measures and improved police response times.
A former employee of the St. Tammany Parish Coroner's Office says he was forced to pick up campaign signs that didn't belong to the office while on the clock.
Mayor Cantrell faces allegations of violating a city council ordinance by staying overnight in the Upper Pontalba apartment during Essence Fest weekend.
NOPD leaders say they had to manually inspect the timesheets and detail shifts of every officer, every day, for a nine-month time period. It comes as Interim Superintendent Michelle Woodfork says a computer system that was supposed to prevent officers from double-dipping isn’t working as planned.
