LCMC Health Raises Minimum Wage to $15
NEW ORLEANS – LCMC Health is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, a roughly 30 percent increase that will take effect April 5, 2026, for all current and future employees across its hospitals and clinics. The move affects about 2 percent of the system’s workforce, reflecting that most employees are already...
Metairie Mom Blames Rummel Expulsion For Son’s Suicide In Suit Against Archdiocese
A Metairie mother has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Archbishop Rummel High School and the Archdiocese of New Orleans after her 17-year-old son, Devon Shelton, died by suicide just hours after being expelled from the school. The suit, filed by Sara Brannon, accuses school officials and the archdiocese of...
New Orleans Bound Amtrak Train With More Than 100 People Aboard Gets in Nasty...
Passengers described a terrifying moment after an Amtrak train hit a truck in Texas—but most walked away unharmed.
Come see the ‘Woman King’ Mardi Gras Indian marching during New Orleans’ Super Sunday
On a Mardi Gras morning, adorned in a vibrant crown shaped like a lion’s face and a dazzling display of orange feathers, Diedra “Deepa Soul” Meredith joined the Golden Feather Hunters as a Mardi Gras Indian for the first time. A local multimedia artist, Meredith’s journey to...
Helena Moreno presses pause on trash fee hike for New Orleans residents. Here’s why.
Mayor Helena Moreno is pressing pause on efforts to increase the monthly fee that households pay for once-a-week garbage and recycling pick-up to give auditors time to review the accuracy of city data on service locations. Moreno at a press conference last week urged the City Council to raise the...
Banksy Unmasked, New Orleans Scrambles To Find What’s Left On Its Walls
A blockbuster new investigation into Banksy’s identity has New Orleans looking hard at its own walls and asking a blunt question: how many of his pieces are actually still here? The report points to the famously anonymous, politically charged stencil artist as a man who now legally goes by David Jones, and that...
Two New Orleans legacy high schools to merge next year amid citywide enrollment decline
Two historic New Orleans high schools, John F. Kennedy High School and Frederick Douglass High School, will merge operations next school year at Kennedy’s Gentilly campus, according to KIPP New Orleans officials. KIPP New Orleans’ board of directors voted last week to combine the schools, which they attributed to...
New Orleans seventh-grader headed to national spelling bee
The regional spelling bee was held at Dillard University over the weekend. The event brought together about 200 students who won their local school’s spelling bee for the chance to compete at the national competition. First Place: Langston Jones, seventh-grader from Ecole Bilingue de la Nouvelle Orleans. Second...
Teen dies after being dragged, run over in Violet, deputies say
VIOLET, La. (WVUE) - The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy following a late-night incident in Violet. Sheriff James Pohlmann said deputies responded around 9 p.m. Monday (March 16) to a call about a person lying in the roadway in the 2200 block of Meraux Lane.
‘St. Pothole Day’: French Quarter bar gives massive street eyesore a festive makeover
This St. Patrick’s Day, it’s not the luck of the Irish shining at Molly’s Irish Pub — it’s the lack of it. A massive pothole has taken over Toulouse Street right in front of the popular New Orleans bar. Owner Jason Phillips says the hole appeared after the city fixed some plumbing issues on the block.
