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The Orleans Parish School Board on Thursday (Dec. 4) once again debated the viability of keeping the Leah Chase School open, amid ongoing financial difficulties, lower-than-expected enrollment and a “D” letter grade from the state Department of Education. But a number of members of the public who attended the...

Louisiana authorities are continuing to search for the last of three inmates who broke through a deteriorating wall on Wednesday and escaped a jail about 130 miles northwest of New Orleans. The three inmates, identified as Keith Eli, 24, of Opelousas, Johnathan Jevon Joseph, 24, of Opelousas, and Joseph Allen...

The City of New Orleans Ethics Review Board (ERB) is slated to gather within the chambers of the city's legislative body, at 1300 Perdido St, for their latest assembly on Monday, December 8, at 3:30 p.m. As noted in an announcement published on the City of New Orleans website, the agenda for the day includes a review...

When I was 22, I walked into my Teach For America Greater New Orleans interview confident that I’d be a history teacher. Therefore, it was a shock when I was asked to pivot to math to meet community needs. I was intimidated, but ready to rise to the challenge. Eleven years later, I’m grateful I did. That shift...

The FBI New Orleans Field Office and Louisiana State Police have announced a joint enforcement initiative. This follows increased immigration enforcement by the Department of Homeland Security in the Greater New Orleans area. The goal is to prevent assaults on federal officers and to stop interference with law...

HARVEY, La. (WVUE) - A 66-year-old Harvey man was booked with attempted murder and manslaughter Saturday (Dec. 6) after allegedly shooting and killing his wife when she intervened in an argument he was having with her son, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said. The incident occurred around 10:15 a.m....

The U.S. Customs and Enforcement people are not the U.S. Border Patrol people. And they are not the only federal agencies going after the so-called “worst of the worst” and coming up short, but they have the highest profiles in Louisiana, and they’re the reason we’re in the national spotlight.

They arrived at the Prytania Theatre early, with glitter and blankets and friends from book club, for the first chance to see a romance they’d loved on the page transformed for the screen. To them, and to the film and book industries courting them, the screening of “People We...

It took federal agents less than a minute to take two men from their pickup truck, handcuff them and drive them away in a pair of unmarked SUVs, witnesses said, describing a federal Border Patrol action in the parking lot of a west Metairie restaurant this week. The men were...

The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public's help to find a person of interest in a business burglary. The incident happened on November 27, 2025, in the 2000 block of Gentilly Boulevard. Investigators say the person may be driving a Dodge Neon with a switched Louisiana plate, 917 GLS.