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A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development did not follow the proper legal process for securing federal funding, halting Louisiana’s applications for homeless services grants. The City of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana were preparing to submit...

Thousands of art lovers will promenade along Royal Street on Saturday evening during the annual Dirty Linen Night block party. They will sip cocktails as they peruse the paintings and sculpture in dozens of art galleries and shop in an equal number of boutiques. Established 25 years ago, the event...

NEW ORLEANS – RNGD, a high-growth, diversified construction firm serving the Southeastern United States, has announced that Michael Pittman has joined the company as Senior Advisor, Heavy Civil. Pittman will advise RNGD’s leadership team on the continued expansion of its Heavy Civil platform, helping develop talent, st

KENNER, La. – Oceans Healthcare announced the opening of Oceans Behavioral Hospital of Greater New Orleans – Kenner West. The campus, at 716 Village Road, is located in the facility that was previously operated as Perimeter Behavioral Hospital of New Orleans. The addition of the Kenner West campus...

The FBI office in New Orleans is investigating a reported armed robbery at a Magazine Street bank on Friday, officials said. New Orleans police and other authorities responded to Home Bank at about 10:35 a.m. in the 5400 block of Magazine Street. NOPD deferred further comment to the FBI, which...

A New Orleans based business, Glass Half Full, collects glass from bars, restaurants, and drop-off sites, recycling it into new bottles and fine silica sand. The recycled sand is used by ReCoast, the nonprofit’s restoration arm, to restore land by building small experimental islands and berms. Louisiana loses roughly..

New Orleans Police are hoping security video of an armed robbery will help them find and arrest the culprit.The crime happened in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, July 23. Police say the victim was walking on Elysian Fields Ave. near Marais St. shortly after 3 a.m.

A Marrero man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death, torching her car and then trying to hide her body in a wooded area of the West Bank was found guilty of second-degree murder Thursday. A Jefferson Parish jury found Nathaniel Hernandez, 43, guilty in the 2022 murder of 32-year-old...

JD Sports, a global athletic footwear and clothing retailer, will open its first store location in the Greater New Orleans area at Metairie’s Lakeside Shopping Center. The sportswear retailer plans to open its store, located next to Macy’s and across from Anthropologie, by late 2026, the mall said in a release on Frida

A $345 train trip from New York to Louisiana sounds like another route requiring Chicago, a station change and several separate tickets. The Crescent runs directly from New York to New Orleans. Under the current timetable, the southbound journey takes 32 hours and 12 minutes, with no required train change along the way