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New Orleans stands at a pivotal moment in its history. Our city continues to wrestle with persistent challenges, including public safety, affordable housing, economic inequality, infrastructure needs, and the demand for trustworthy, transparent leadership. The decision voters make this fall will shape the direction...

Shelton Alexander survived humidity, fear and sewage overflows in the stadium that sheltered 30,000

“Some of these kids are already lost when they’re two years old,” said a state representative in a room full of legislators, youth advocates, and colleagues. Gasps from the audience echoed through the committee room of the Louisiana House of Representatives. It was the Fall 2024 legislative session...

The National Fried Chicken Festival announced its musician line-up on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

The New Orleans school district is launching a new attendance strike force that will step in when schools try repeatedly but fail to get frequently absent students to show up, officials said Tuesday. After interventions at the school level come up short, schools will be able to refer students to...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police are investigating a shooting reported Wednesday morning in the Lower 9th Ward. Officers were called to the 1700 block of Lizardi Street shortly before 10:40 a.m., according to the NOPD. When Fifth District officers arrived, they found a victim suffering from a gunshot...

Curious about how Katrina’s impact affected the sound that came out of his horn, Kermit explained that the sound was part of who he was and all he had witnessed.

The Orleans Coroner’s office has released a preliminary cause of death for Brian Vasquez, the 12-year-old special needs child found in a canal near his New Orleans east home 14 days after he disappeared.

Villard “V.” Paddio left a photographic record of the Black and Creole culture in New Orleans during the early 20th century. “Many of Paddio’s early photographs documented the city’s African American citizens and organizations, as well as the jazz scene, including photographs of a young Louis Armstrong,” Tulane...

A Guatemalan man has pled guilty to unlawful reentry into the United States, more than five years after his deportation, confirming Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson's office. The 25-year-old was apprehended in a targeted enforcement operation in Terrytown, Louisiana, by U.S. Border Patrol agents earlier this...