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A recent climate study arguing that New Orleans has reached a “point of no return” and should begin planning relocation makes one major mistake: It treats uncertainty as inevitability. No one denies the serious risks facing coastal Louisiana. Sea level rise, subsidence, hurricanes and wetland loss are real...

Funeral arraignments were announced for a lieutenant in the East Bank Consolidated Fire Department who was killed in a boating crash.

Gendusa’s Italian Eatery will once again serve its pizzas and pastas out of a cottage in Kenner’s Rivertown District. Owner Troy Gendusa posted to social media last week that he would reopen the cottage at 325 Williams Blvd. as a second location of Gendusa’s Pizzeria after customers expressed that they missed the forme

Many New Orleans institutions show little evidence of time: countertops lined with Crystal hot sauce, glowing neon signs and laminated menus unchanged for decades. But some of those staples have proven they are not immune to change, as more than five have closed their doors in the last year. Casamento’s Restaurant coul

This detail from a 1732 map shows the sequence of meanders Iberville described in his initial expedition up the Mississippi River in 1699. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. This story appeared in the February/March issue of PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like th

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - With school out of session, 7,000 educators from across Louisiana are at the Morial Convention Center for the 2026 Teacher Leader Summit. In between panels, meetings and workshop, the group is unaware that convention center leaders are working around the clock to improve the massive facility and th

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — After a brief lull overnight, the flood threat ramps back up Wednesday as another round of heavy rain and storms moves into southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. Flash flooding remains the main concern through the rest of the week, especially in areas that have already picked up several inch

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – A flood watch issued for SE LA again today. Monitoring a strong line of storms move into the state from the west this morning. We have already seen tremendous weakening of this line from earlier on today when they were passing through Houston. Behind these storms is a secondary MCS, (mesoscale […]

NEW ORLEANS — New details are emerging about where an underground tunnel proposed by Elon Musk could be built in New Orleans. Mayor Helena Moreno applied in February to The Boring Company’s “Tunnel Vision Challenge,” according to our partners at The Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate.

Louisiana voters are coming under fire for rejecting five proposed state constitutional amendments on last Saturday’s ballot. Critics are especially upset that voters rejected Amendment 3 that would have given […]