Uptown’s August Moon, Which Fed Storm Victims for Decades, Fears Closing for Good
For two decades, August Moon has served Vietnamese and Chinese comfort food to the Uptown New Orleans neighborhood surrounding Prytania Street, feeding hospital workers and residents through hurricane after hurricane. Now the family-run restaurant says it may not survive the current economic storm, with owners describi
17-year-old boy dies falling from stairs in CBD area building, New Orleans police say
Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the death of a teenage boy in the Central Business District in the early hours of Aug. 15.
Teen dies from fall inside Downtown New Orleans high-rise, NOPD says
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A 17-year-old boy died early Saturday (Aug. 15) after falling from a stairwell inside a Downtown New Orleans high-rise, New Orleans police said. The department would not yet confirm that the deadly fall occurred within the derelict Plaza Tower, but listed the site of the incident as within the 1000
New ownership hopes to fix up apartment complex plagued by issues
The national housing non-profit "The Mary fund" is taking over the Parc Fontaine apartments.
Saints Preseason Opener and more on tap for weekend events across Southeast Louisiana
From the Saints Preseason opener game to Covington White Linen Night, here’s what you can do this weekend. The New Orleans Saints kick off the preseason on Saturday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The game will be held in the Superdome at 3 p.m. Tickets are still available for the...
Lakeshore Playground in Metairie to replace all grass fields with synthetic turf in $2.5M...
METAIRIE, La. (WVUE) - Lakeshore Playground, the most popular park for youth sports on the east bank of Jefferson Parish, is undergoing a multi-million-dollar overhaul that will replace all of its grass fields with synthetic turf. The project will install a multi-use synthetic turf field striped with a full-length 100-
New Orleans native transformed a freestanding room into a two-bay cottage in the Irish...
Daniel Garness speculates that his friend, neighbor and client Patrick Startt's 724-square-foot home in the Irish Channel was built around the 1850s-'60s as a raised one-room affair, probably a kitchen, given the freestanding fireplace located roughly in the middle. “The structure probably served as a dependency to ano
In New Orleans, these daycares educate — and house — children and families
Rochelle Wilcox and her team waved enthusiastically from a float that followed the St. Augustine High School Marching 100 to Freret Street. They were trailed by a few dozen early childcare teachers and a few toddlers, some walking hand-in-hand with their mothers and others riding colorful scooters. The second line...
Video, witness testimony introduced at federal murder trial in staged crash scheme
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The defense attorney for one of the men on trial in the murder of a federal witness showed new video in court Friday (Aug. 14), arguing his client did not pull the trigger. The case is tied to the years-long fraud scheme to stage car crashes...
Hope Haven aquatic center project aims to transform former orphanage site
MARRERO, La. (WVUE) - Jefferson Parish and state leaders are moving forward with a $70 million plan to redevelop the former Hope Haven orphanage site, with an aquatic center as the centerpiece of the project’s second phase. The 15-acre campus, which closed in the 1990s, has been the subject...
