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In the Keesler Federal Credit Union suite at the Superdome, sparkly black and gold revelry paraded through the door. Dawn Bradley-Fletcher, CEO of the New Orleans Women and Children’s Shelter, led her crew into the suite for the Nov. 23 Saints vs. Falcons game, complete with pompoms, sequins and lots of laughter.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Julio Machado, chef and owner of Origen Bistro in the Bywater neighborhood, said he received an alarming phone call from his mother in Venezuela at 2 a.m. Saturday. “I received this phone call from my mother last night, 2 in the morning. She was like really,...

New Orleans, always known for a vibrant music scene, was the first to usher in the dramatic art form of opera to an appreciative young nation. One reader’s question: Was New Orleans the first American city to have an opera house?. Philadelphia is commonly credited with the oldest existing...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, Mayor-elect Helena Moreno, Sen. Bill Cassidy and other leaders gathered with mourners Sunday at a memorial to honor the victims of the deadly Bourbon Street attack on Jan. 1, 2025, with survivor Brittany Francois asking attendees to make the event meaningful through their actions...

Louisiana nonprofit benefit raises $50K to support early psychosis care. Early Psychosis Intervention Clinic New Orleans, or EPIC-NOLA, and its early detection campaign, Clear Answers to Louisiana’s Mental Health, both affiliated with the Tulane Department of Psychiatry, announced that the fourth annual In My Mind...

Dr. Keith Ferdinand is a native New Orleanian from the Ninth Ward. He has spent his 40-year career as a cardiologist, working to eliminate disparities in heart disease — on the streets and in the communities that raised him. In August of 2005, Ferdinand and his family packed their...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a young girl missing since late December. Police said Kah’Myre Scott, 15, was last seen around 6:25 p.m. on Dec. 27, leaving her home in the 300 block of Marais Street to "get help at a hospital". Her family has not been able...

In a WVUE FOX 8 New Orleans video report, Rob Krieger opens with a number that sounds like a typo until he repeats it: $245,903. That’s what the New Orleans Police Department’s highest overtime earner was paid overall in 2024, nearly a quarter-million dollars tied to one officer, Sergeant Henry Burke.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -New Orleans police are investigating a shooting that left one person dead Friday afternoon. Seventh District officers responded around 4:25 p.m. to a report of a shooting in the 5900 block of Boeing Street, where they found an unresponsive 24-year-old man with at least one gunshot wound.

Is it true that Sid and Marty Krofft, the creators of my favorite 1970s TV children’s show, “H.R. Pufnstuf,” once had an adult puppet show on Bourbon Street? When and where did it play?. The Krofft brothers, the imaginative minds behind 1970s TV shows such as “H.R....