New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration continues taking cut of School Board taxes
Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration has continued to take a cut of the Orleans Parish School Board’s tax revenues, irking City Council members who passed a law this spring to forbid that practice while a six-year-old lawsuit over the city’s tax collections plays out. The administration has maintained...
New Orleans high school ranked best school in Louisiana, Top-100 nationally
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Benjamin Franklin High School has been ranked the top high school in Louisiana and the only one in the state to crack the national Top 100, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best High Schools rankings. The selective-admissions charter school placed No. 1...
Bus monitor allegedly attacked by McDonogh student, mother
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A fight broke out Thursday on an Orleans Parish school bus between a McDonogh 35 High School student, her mother and the bus monitor, sending the employee to the emergency room with multiple injuries, including bite marks. “What’s happening with our youth? How disrespectful our youth...
Slidell’s $40M Amazon delivery center now up and running. More jobs could become available.
Slidell's $40 million Amazon delivery center quietly went online this week with plans to increase the volume of packages handled by the facility in the coming weeks and months, an Amazon representative said Friday. More jobs could open as the center ramps up production, the company says. "We've been shipping...
Crimestoppers offering reward for tips on missing 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez
Crimestoppers hopes a $1,250 reward will help bring Bryan Vasquez home, as he is non-verbal and has been without his medicine for over a week.
The “Other” Route 66: Discover the Old Spanish Trail
In U.S. motorized iconography, the legendary Route 66 opened in 1926, providing a unified roadway stretching from Chicago to Santa Monica, some 2,450 miles. By its creation, the myth of the endless straight road was born. Although the route officially disappeared in 1985, thousands still travel it every year looking...
Despite criminal charges against Mayor Cantrell, lawsuit against her could be settled
NEW ORLEANS — In new developments connected to the criminal fraud case against Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a federal judge has ordered settlement talks in the related defamation lawsuit against the mayor. And as that civil case is currently being waged, taxpayers could be on the hook if the two...
Lizards in New Orleans have highest blood-lead levels ever recorded, study finds
The brown lizards scampering on New Orleans porches and sunning themselves on sidewalks should be dead by any other standard. That’s because the Cuban brown anoles live with the highest blood lead levels ever documented in a vertebrate, according to a Tulane University study published this month. Despite lead...
Feeling hopeless in France, this New Orleans native found a way to help after...
When Carol Allen gets frustrated, her anger prompts her to want to hit something — a pillow, a door or a car steering wheel, whatever's handy. In 2005, Allen was living in Provence, France, when she heard the news that Hurricane Katrina was destroying her beloved hometown. Every morning, she watched CNN International...
As volunteers scour New Orleans East for missing boy, NOPD faces scrutiny
New Orleans East resident Marco Hernandez donned rain gear and grabbed a machete on Friday morning as he prepared to search the area's thicketed marshes, abandoned homes and waterways until sundown. He joined dozens of community members who have done the same since a 12-year-old non-verbal boy vanished last week.
