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Parking in the French Quarter will be limited and strictly enforced starting Thursday as the French Quarter Festival returns, with city officials warning drivers not to risk it, or they could be towed. The four-day festival runs through Sunday, April 19, filling the historic district with music, food and large...

For months, New Orleans East residents said they've been frustrated by the foul smell emanating from the Dwyer Canal.

A woman convicted in New Orleans federal court over a yearslong scheme to steal money from elderly widows is on the run after failing to report to federal prison, officials say. Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall was sentenced in January to eight years in federal custody for her role in the “romance...

Kyle Banks loves music. He always has — since his days at St. Augustine High School to completing graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. Now, he's performing on Broadway. He landed his first role off-Broadway before securing a slot as an ensemble member of "Wicked: The Musical" and...

A Metairie couple was arrested Tuesday after a 2-year-old boy suffered a suspected fentanyl overdose, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. Kayla Bonilla, 27, and her boyfriend, Tyler Brady, 29, were booked with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile, said JPSO spokesperson Sgt. Brandon Veal. The victim, Bonilla's son, remained...

A fire started at the New Orleans Tesla service and leasing center in the Irish Channel after the building was hit by an apparent Molotov cocktail early Tuesday morning, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ New Orleans office. The front door of the office on...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A two-alarm fire at a multi-unit residence in the Bywater neighborhood was extinguished Wednesday (April 15) by the New Orleans Fire Department. The NOFD said 33 firefighters manning 10 units responded to the fire at a camel-backed structure at 2802 St. Claude Ave. All occupants had evacuated the building and no injuries were reported among residents or firefighters...

Textron Systems Corporation, a defense contractor, is expanding its operations in southeast Louisiana across multiple sites.

The genealogy of Pope Leo XIV leads directly to the old St. Landry Parish steamboat port of Washington, showing not only his own complex ancestry but that of hundreds of families with mixed heritages, many of whom prospered in South Louisiana. As a treatise by LSU’s Michael Taylor points out,...

Lots of neighbors in Uptown New Orleans are getting excited now that the Trader Joe's sign at the new Uptown location went up this week.