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A Gretna man is accused of misleading a Baker property owner into investing more than $100,000 in a fictional medical marijuana business he wasn’t licensed to open. The property owner didn’t learn the business endeavor was fraudulent until after work was already underway to remodel the building. Kyle...

As two Louisiana State Museum board members arrived at Madame John’s Legacy in New Orleans’ French Quarter on Aug. 10, the smell of freshly cut wood hit their noses. Inside the state-owned 18th century building, which is designated as a museum but closed to the public, wooden beams had been chopped into blocks and were stacked against a wall. Nearby, what looked like a shutter was covered in sawdust, and painted pieces of stairs had been cut into pieces.

On Wednesday morning, a security guard paced the gated perimeter of Planned Parenthood’s South Claiborne Avenue clinic, where staffers were preparing to treat patients for the first time in roughly a year. "We've only been open for about an hour. So it's a little quiet so far, but we...

GRETNA, La. (WVUE) - The Slidell woman found responsible for the death of a visiting Super Bowl reporter in 2025 will spend the rest of her life in prison. Danette Colbert’s extensive criminal history proved her undoing Wednesday (Oct. 14), when a Jefferson Parish judge increased her prison term from 60 years to life plus 75 years, in connection with the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano.

The Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, a joint venture between the state's largest healthcare provider and New Orleans' historically Black Catholic university, has the green light to begin recruiting its first class of future doctors as the medical school prepares to open next year. On Wednesday, the fledgling school was...

Dakar NOLA has quietly solved one of its biggest barriers to entry: you no longer need a $175 reservation to eat there. The James Beard-winning Senegalese restaurant has opened the Dakar Terrace, a walk-in-only, à la carte patio tucked beside its new home on Leonidas Street, offering small and shared plates without requiring the full tasting-menu experience.

A Slidell woman convicted of fatally drugging a Kansas City sports reporter who traveled to New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl in 2025 will spend the rest of her life in prison after a Jefferson Parish judge upgraded her sentence under Louisiana’s habitual offender laws. Danette Colbert, 45,...

Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a fatal shooting in the Little Woods neighborhood on the afternoon of Wednesday, Oct. 14.

NEW ORLEANS, LA — The New Orleans area is heading toward a windy October weekend, with gusts potentially reaching 35 mph Saturday as temperatures fall from the mid-80s into the lower 70s before gradually warming again next week.

New Orleans Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who reportedly climbed through an Algiers fast food drive-thru window with a weapon last Friday.