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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans woman suing Mayor LaToya Cantrell wants the city attorney’s office off Cantrell’s defense. Anne Breaud’s attorney, Justin Schmidt, filed a motion in federal court asking a judge to disqualify the taxpayer-funded office from representing Cantrell and her Chief of Staff Clifton...

Noah Markham was in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit — but he wasn’t actually born until two years later. “I was there, but I wasn’t there at the same time,” 18-year-old Noah tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview for this week’s issue. “All the [storms] after that I was there for, though.” It sounds […]

Winn-Dixie is kicking off its centennial celebration with throwback pricing and special in-store promotions throughout the month of September. As part of its 100th anniversary festivities, the grocer is holding community bashes at six of its stores throughout the Southeast. Each celebration will include live music,...

Although I was born before Hurricane Katrina, this experience brought me closer to the stories told by my mother and grandmother.

About 1,092 Entergy customers in the Gentilly area were without power for a little over an hour Tuesday morning after a vehicle hit a terminal pole and damaged an underground cable, according to Entergy New Orleans. The outage mostly impacted those between Mirabeau Avenue and Gentilly Boulevard bounded by Paris...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Country music star Lainey Wilson joined comedian Theo Von on his This Past Weekend podcast Thursday (Aug. 28), where the two Louisiana natives swapped stories from childhood, music, and the road ahead. Wilson spoke about her upcoming music, her engagement to Devlin “Duck” Hodges, and how...

New Orleanians and Louisiana residents as a whole could benefit from a revitalized and thriving Canal Street, and that’s been a focus moving forward according to Louisiana Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has announced that Yandra Gomez, the 30-year-old woman reported missing yesterday morning in Algiers, has returned home safely. As originally reported by WWLTV, Gomez, who has a reported intellectual disability and additional medical issues, had been the subject of an intense...

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a missing boater, but other state and parish agencies were still searching Tuesday after a sailboat carrying a man and a woman crashed into the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway early Sunday morning. When the boat hit the bridge around 3 a.m. Sunday...

A man gunned down on a Harvey street in April was killed after he was involved in a shooting 30 minutes earlier that left a 15-year-old boy wounded, according to authorities. Had Christian Burgau, 20, of Harvey, survived the gunfire that claimed his life on St. Michael Drive, he would have faced an attempted murder...