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Kyle Banks loves music. He always has — since his days at St. Augustine High School to completing graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. Now, he's performing on Broadway. He landed his first role off-Broadway before securing a slot as an ensemble member of "Wicked: The Musical" and...

A Metairie couple was arrested Tuesday after a 2-year-old boy suffered a suspected fentanyl overdose, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. Kayla Bonilla, 27, and her boyfriend, Tyler Brady, 29, were booked with second-degree cruelty to a juvenile, said JPSO spokesperson Sgt. Brandon Veal. The victim, Bonilla's son, remained...

A fire started at the New Orleans Tesla service and leasing center in the Irish Channel after the building was hit by an apparent Molotov cocktail early Tuesday morning, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ New Orleans office. The front door of the office on...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A two-alarm fire at a multi-unit residence in the Bywater neighborhood was extinguished Wednesday (April 15) by the New Orleans Fire Department. The NOFD said 33 firefighters manning 10 units responded to the fire at a camel-backed structure at 2802 St. Claude Ave. All occupants had evacuated the building and no injuries were reported among residents or firefighters...

Textron Systems Corporation, a defense contractor, is expanding its operations in southeast Louisiana across multiple sites.

The genealogy of Pope Leo XIV leads directly to the old St. Landry Parish steamboat port of Washington, showing not only his own complex ancestry but that of hundreds of families with mixed heritages, many of whom prospered in South Louisiana. As a treatise by LSU’s Michael Taylor points out,...

Lots of neighbors in Uptown New Orleans are getting excited now that the Trader Joe's sign at the new Uptown location went up this week.

In Louisiana, Mardi Gras is supposed to be all about celebration, chaos, music, and maybe the occasional questionable life choice. But for one woman in New Orleans, something she saw on the street stopped her mid-fest. At first glance, it looked like just another crowded setup near a public space,...

A New Orleans man who evaded U.S. Marshals for nearly four years after allegedly killing a woman in Central City was ordered held on a $2 million bond Tuesday, four months after his apprehension in a seaside California town. New Orleans police say William Powell III, 43, shot Ciara Bullock,...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A woman was shot early Wednesday (April 15) in the Broadmoor neighborhood, New Orleans police said. The victim was reported shot around 6:15 a.m. near the intersection of South Miro and General Taylor streets, the NOPD said. She was taken for treatment by New Orleans EMS personnel but her condition was not disclosed.