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A New Orleans police sergeant who claimed more than 4,500 work hours and received over $282,000 in 2025 has been fired following an internal investigation ... Read More

The City Council has pulled the plug on free customized lighting displays on the Crescent City Connection, establishing new rules to charge fees to private groups that want to illuminate the bridge over the Mississippi River in colors of their choosing. The change comes more than 18 months after new...

Gov. Jeff Landry and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu traded barbs Friday on social media, as Landrieu accused the governor of attacking the city and the governor responded by blasting his record. The two have traded barbs on X, with Landrieu posting a recent guest column in the Times-Picayune...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The heat is back, and it is not playing around. Sunshine is taking over across southeast Louisiana this weekend as the region transitions away from the soggy, unsettled weather left behind by Tropical Storm Bertha. The atmosphere is running unusually dry for late July, and that combination of limit

The Downtown Development District in New Orleans is accepting applications for a grant matching program to help fill vacant ground-floor storefronts and support small businesses in the downtown area. Kandy’s Restaurant opened about a month ago in the former home of a hookah lounge. The space had been empty for...

Kenner's Laketown area could begin to see thousands of visitors next year for concerts as a plan to build a $19 million amphitheater to spur economic development moves toward construction. Jefferson Parish Council Member Arita Bohannan announced Wednesday the concert venue would soon go out for construction bids, after

WDSU-TV investigative reporter Cassie Schirm said Friday that she will leave the local NBC affiliate for a broadcast news job in Washington D.C. at the end of the month. Schirm, who has won multiple Emmy and Edward R Murrow awards, said in a Facebook post that after four years, "leaving New Orleans is one of the hardes

Partway through U.S. Rep. Troy Carter's speech in front of a new amenity at a park in the Cut-Off neighborhood in Algiers on Friday, an enormous red bucket dumped gallons of cold water into the park behind him. "That's only the beginning," Carter joked, standing in front of Cut Off...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno said Friday she remains focused on her work in the city despite an ongoing dispute with state officials. At a local conference Friday afternoon (July 24), Moreno made her position clear. “I’ve moved beyond all that,” she told a reporter. “I’ve...

LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A Marrero woman is facing charges as part of an investigation into online and phone threats, harassment, and extortion in Livingston Parish. According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested Haydee Ortiz, 29, and booked her into the Livingston Parish Detention Center