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After a marathon meeting last month, the Regional Transit Authority's board of commissioners voted to narrow the field of candidates vying to be the agency's next CEO from five to three. In a letter sent to the RTA board last week, however, New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno requested a do-over...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans homeowners could soon pay hundreds more in property taxes. The city has said it is considering a millage roll forward, which would add more than $42 million to its budget next year. The Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office provided data Tuesday (Sept. 15), which shows...

Arriving in Charlotte at 5:31 in the morning sounds efficient until you ask where you will go with your bags. A hotel may not have a room ready. Your host may still be asleep. The appointment that motivated the trip may be hours away, while your last proper night’s rest was the night before you left Georgia.

New Orleans music venue The Howlin’ Wolf Sept. 10 filed suit in federal court against ticket resale giant StubHub, accusing the company of a host of unfair business practices. Howlin’ Wolf alleges StubHub is selling tickets that don’t exist, falsely claiming ticket shortages to shows where no tickets have...

After 20 years of serving New Orleans, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum has closed it's doors.

Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a shooting that happened in the St. Roch neighborhood in the early afternoon of Sept. 15.

At least one person was shot at the intersection of North Dorgenois and Pauger streets in New Orleans's Seventh Ward around 9:30 p.m. Sunday, according to police. Officers asked residents to avoid the area as the investigation got underway, and the injured person's condition remains unknown. New Orleans police are...

The additional days people are kept imprisoned beyond what their sentences prescribe cost more than time.

Alexandra Papadopoulou is one of Greece’s highest-ranking diplomats, serving as her country's deputy foreign minister. But when she came to New Orleans in 1987 to lead, at age 28, the city's Greek consulate in her first diplomatic posting, she was feeling lost and a little unsure of herself. Soon...

I am writing in relation to Quin Hillyer's commentary on the new marijuana dispensary on Bourbon Street. What concerns me is what his story of decadence and debauchery omits. He fails to mention any of the following related facts:. Much, if not most, of the products sold at that dispensary...