Here’s the weekend schedule, maps for New Orleans, Metairie and Slidell Mardi Gras parades
It's the first big weekend for Carnival float parades this weekend, when traditional parades start rolling on the northshore and the East, and some New Orleans' most unique walking parades hit the streets. Friday. BOHEME: 7 p.m. Marigny/French Quarter. The dreamiest walking parade is is devoted to absinthe and ruled...
Krewe of Nefertiti, which serves year-round, gets ready to roll in New Orleans East...
The audio version of this story is AI generated and is not human reviewed. It may contain errors or inaccuracies. Based in New Orleans East, the all-women Krewe of Nefertiti has remained the only parade to roll through the East for all six years of its existence. Queen Nefertiti VI, LaShonda Tenner, emphasized that...
Hundreds without power as temperatures drop
Hundreds of people are without power in the Terrytown area, according to the Entergy New Orleans outage map. Outage start time: Jan. 31, 7:29 a.m. Estimated restoration time: Jan. 31, 10 a.m. The outage comes as temperatures are plummeting. WDSU has reached out to Entergy New Orleans for comment. “Entergy...
Xavier University receives $3 million from Humana to launch scholarship for medical students
Xavier University’s Ochsner College of Medicine announced on Monday (Jan. 26) that the Kentucky-based health insurance company Humana has established a $3 million scholarship fund for medical students at Xavier interested in pursuing primary care, internal medicine or maternal care in Louisiana. Xavier and Ochsner...
Rockin’1000 makes U.S. debut at Superdome with Harry Connick Jr.
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - For the first time in the United States, the Rockin’1000 show comes to the Superdome on Saturday night, featuring Harry Connick Jr. as guest artistic director. Among the 1,000 musicians from around the world will be student musicians from the Ellis Marsalis Center that Connick...
Water main break floods Uptown streets; car swallowed by sinkhole, SWBNO issues boil water...
NEW ORLEANS — A huge water main break was reported Uptown Saturday evening, prompting a precautionary boil water advisory as the Sewerage and Water Board investigates. The break was reported near Panola Street and Fern Street, and viewers say flooding extends to the 2000 block of Carrollton Avenue. A car also fell...
Thomas Riggio sentenced to 9 years in jail for deadly hit-and-run crash
A 19-year-old man has been sentenced in a deadly hit-and-run crash that occurred in July in the St. Claude neighborhood. Thomas Riggio, 19, will serve nine years in jail after being found guilty Friday morning. Riggio changed his plea to guilty late last year, with sentencing originally scheduled for December.
New Orleans children’s hospital earns Level 1 pediatric trauma center designation
Manning Family Children's Hospital in New Orleans is the first hospital in Louisiana and the Gulf South to become a Level 1 pediatric trauma center, a designation that means the hospital can treat patients under the age of 18 with the most serious trauma injuries and emergencies. In order to...
DJ Soul Sister Shares Her Musical Curse with New Orleans
Melissa Weber considers herself cursed. With a near-encyclopedic knowledge of 15,000 records scrounged from a lifetime as a “crate digger,” the world-renowned DJ artist known as DJ Soul Sister has been sharing that curse with New Orleans for over 30 years, working a turntable as a savant beholden to the long-lost art...
Five arrested after exploitation investigation in Louisiana
Five individuals were arrested on charges related to child sexual exploitation in Louisiana.
