Compliance still patchy as New Orleans senior homes face disaster planning mandates, fines
A New Orleans law aimed at boosting disaster planning at certain senior housing facilities has mixed results four years after the hurricane that prompted it. Passed about two months after Hurricane Ida struck New Orleans in late August 2021, the law requires the dozens of independent living facilities in the city to...
JAMNOLA is now on Frenchman Street
JAMNOLA stands for Joy, Art, Music, and there's a new address for this familiar place now on Frenchman Street.
Sacred Heart was the only Black Catholic school in east St. Tammany
Sacred Heart School in St. Tammany Parish began as an 80-student, two-room school, but quickly grew to 240 students in the first through 9th grades after a group of Black nuns crossed Lake Pontchartrain in 1958 to teach there. As the only Black Catholic school in the eastern part of...
Advocates hope success of Amtrak’s ‘Mardi Gras’ service speeds launch of other Louisiana routes
When Monroe Mayor Friday Ellis rode Amtrak's new Mardi Gras line between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, last month, he saw a lot of smiling faces inside and outside of the train. “In Pascagoula (Mississippi), there were hundreds of people waiting to greet us,” he said. “On the route, people...
Trader Joe’s to Open New Stores in 7 States
In August, Trader Joe’s opened new locations in Yucaipa, Calif., and New Orleans. The new stores now in the pipeline are a continuation of Trader Joe’s expansion, which also includes the construction of a new distribution center on New York’s Long Island. Located in the hamlet of Islandia, the grocer's new...
NOPD, State Police hail more than 100 arrests in summer crime sweep
The fourth iteration of a summer crime-fighting partnership between the New Orleans Police Department and Louisiana State Police netted 60 felony arrests, 38 misdemeanor arrests and 18 fugitive arrests over the past month, NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said Thursday. Joined at police headquarters by State...
NOPD investigates two separate shootings in New Orleans overnight
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating two unrelated overnight shootings. In the first incident, officers responded to a reported shooting in the 7100 block of Lake Willow Drive in New Orleans East. Two adult males with gunshot wounds were transported to the hospital for treatment. Their...
Most New Orleans residents frustrated with street conditions, drainage, poll finds
A poll published this week by Resilience New Orleans, an Entergy-backed advocacy group that supports investments in city infrastructure, found that two-thirds of New Orleans voters think the city is headed in the wrong direction and that large majorities had been affected by infrastructure woes. The telephone survey...
Kitchen fire closes a donut shop in Metairie on Veterans Memorial Boulevard
Sweet Things Donuts and Grill is usually open 24 hours a day, but a small kitchen fire on Friday morning has forced the Metairie favorite to close its doors temporarily. The fire was reported about 8:40 a.m. inside the diner located in the 1000 block of Veterans Memorial Boulevard, according to Jefferson Parish...
Louisiana law enforcement agencies announce results of Operation Golden Eagle
Various law enforcement agencies announced the results of Operation Golden Eagle 2025 Thursday, Sept. 4. It was a multi-agency partnership aiming to remove illegal guns and narcotics around New Orleans.
