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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Another frontal system is pushing into the Southeast by Thursday and Friday, bringing a fresh round of storms along the upper Gulf Coast through Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. A formal severe weather probability zone with a 15 percent tornado probability core is already drawn over southern Mississippi and Alabama, and a stalling front could mean prolonged rain and storm chances linger...

A man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the 2022 killing of a woman in New Orleans East, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announced during a news conference on Monday. A jury found Nicholas “Ducktape” Stackpoole guilty over the death of 24-year-old Toiannie Odom, who was discovered with...

A bicyclist is dead as the result of a crash in Jefferson Parish.

(This content was created with the help of AI.) New Orleans, a city long defined by water, may ultimately have to give in to it. A new perspectives paper in Nature Sustainability argues that southern Louisiana has crossed a "point of no return" on sea-level rise, and that planning to resettle people away from the New Orleans region should start now, per the...

Scot Pilié has been promoted to WDSU-TV’s chief meteorologist, the station has announced. Pilié joined WDSU on a part-time, freelance basis in October. The New Orleans native previously worked at WGNO-TV and The Weather Channel. He and his husband, Ben Mount, also have a sizable social media...

A midday police chase that started near South Claiborne Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard spilled across town Monday, ending with a driver ditching a vehicle and bolting on foot in New Orleans East. The pursuit wrapped up near Read Boulevard and Andover Street, where the suspect took off and left the car behind. Officers quickly threw up a perimeter and sent a...

Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams is applauding a jury that delivered a guilty verdict this week in the 2022 New Orleans homicide case against Nickolas Stackpoole, a man police had tagged with the street name “Duct tape.” The decision closes the loop on a long investigation into a killing that left one local family waiting a very long time for answers.

A police car travels down Canal St in the French Quarter in New Orleans as Hurricane Gustav makes landfall September 1, 2008. Torrential rain and intense winds blasted Louisiana as Hurricane Gustav neared New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Monday after forcing nearly two million people to flee. New Orleans was locked down and streets completely empty as emergency workers who remained behind hunkered...

Tedeschi Trucks Band closed out the Shell Gentilly Stage on Sunday, the eighth and final day of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The 12-piece ensemble got into the collaborative spirit of Jazz Fest by bringing out Warren Haynes, Teddy Swims, George Porter Jr., Jaimoe and Marc Quinones during the Fairgrounds set.

New Orleans is getting a full-on R&B coronation this week. Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Stephanie Mills are teaming up for "The Queens: 4 Legends, 1 Stage" at the Smoothie King Center on Thursday, May 7, 2026. The all-star show, set for 8 p.m., was rescheduled from its original Feb. 19, 2026 date. Fans can still grab primary tickets...