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New Orleans City Council members are expected to vote Thursday to fund the next step in revitalizing the Municipal Auditorium and Armstrong Park. Why it matters: The goal is to turn the space in the Treme into a cultural destination to celebrate the city's Black heritage. The big picture: The...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A bald eagle was sucked into the engine of a Southwest Airlines jet moments after takeoff from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in 2023, triggering a partial engine failure and filling the cockpit with smoke, according to a final federal report released Thursday. The National...

Jurors in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court began hearing evidence Wednesday in the killing of 28-year-old Asia Davis, a New Orleans East woman whose death has become a flashpoint in the city’s debate over domestic violence and police response. Prosecutors say a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in May...

Chef Adam Korbel previews Public Service’s new menu at NOPSI, featuring the NOPSI Benedict, Acadian Benedict and boudin cakes.

Every March in Louisiana, the St. Joseph Altar transforms Catholic churches into ornate tables of devotion and Sicilian tradition. The altars are traditionally made to celebrate the Feast Day of St. Joseph, which takes place on March 19. They are traditionally constructed in the shape of a cross with three levels in...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The woman accused of striking and killing a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy late last month had 11 different drugs in her system at the time of the crash, according to Orleans Parish court records. Erica Smith-Katsanis, 53, was booked into the Orleans Justice Center...

James Keen, a former Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy who once ran the New Orleans Police Department's Major Case Homicide unit, is now on the other side of the booking desk. Investigators say Keen pocketed $160 from a Metairie home during a welfare check on Saturday, leading to his arrest on a charge of malfeasance...

A federal judge in New Orleans fined a veteran lawyer $1,000 on Tuesday over an error-filled legal brief he drafted using ChatGPT that cited a slew of “hallucinated” court cases. U.S. District Judge Brandon Long spared punishment for three other lawyers whose names also appeared on the botched...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — A contractor who allegedly admitted last summer to falsifying New Orleans inspection records using Photoshop was arrested Wednesday in Jefferson Parish on new fraud charges. State investigators testified at the Louisiana Contractors Licensing Board in July 2025 that Jon Andersen had admitted...

Detectives with the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Belle Rose woman in connection to a Special Victim's Unit investigation.