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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police are investigating a deadly shooting that happened Saturday afternoon (Dec. 6), leaving one man dead and another injured. Officers responded to reports of gunfire just before 4:15 p.m. in the 4700 block of Camelia Street. When they arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As of Dec. 4, data from the New Orleans City Council crime dashboard showed there were 105 murders in the city. That figure represents a 6% drop compared to the same time last year, but when compared to 2022, when the city had 243 homicides, the murder rate has dropped more than 56%. Jeff Asher...

Hannah Chalew salvaged an old oil well from the Poland Avenue scrap yard in New Orleans. She coated it with bagasse, or sugar cane pulp, from Grow Dat, the urban farm in City Park. The paint is recycled, from another nonprofit, the Green Project, and the plants — palmettos, cypress, elephant ear — are largely from...

Efforts to maintain community safety in Kenner recently culminated in the capture of a wanted individual, highlighting the benefits of governmental partnership. In a social media update from the Kenner Police Department, authorities expressed appreciation to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for their role in...

Then, at around 10:48 last night in the 1800 block of old roman street, officers responded to a call of shots fired and found a victim inside a home suffering from a gunshot wound. The victim later died at the hospital.

New Orleans City Council members are urging the school district to preserve the names of longtime New Orleans schools that close or consolidate, an issue that is likely to become more pressing in the coming years as more schools shutter due to low enrollment. City Council members unanimously passed a...

COVINGTON --- District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on December 3, 2025, a St. Tammany Parish jury unanimously found Antoine Massey guilty of Second Degree Rape, Second Degree Kidnapping, Domestic Abuse of a Dating Partner by Strangulation, and Second Offense Violation of a Protective Order. The first three...

One Killed in Louisiana Home Invasion; Suspect Arrested I still remember reading about the Harvey home invasion, and it hit […] This article originally appeared on BuildLikeNew.com — visit us for more home security guides.

Once a white-stucco structure with green tile, the home of Smith Wendell “S.W.” Green outlived a Ku Klux Klan arson attack in 1928. But in recent years, fire returned, and this time the blaze took down the old house — “a heartbreaking blow to this architectural treasure,” the Preservation Resource Center of New...

A weekslong trial aimed at settling the Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy case concluded on Thursday with a federal bankruptcy judge saying she is likely to approve the settlement worked out between the local church and survivors of child sexual abuse. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith Grabill told attorneys for...