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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

From global markets to Louisiana farm fields, this week's TWILA explores agriculture at home and abroad. We look at how renewed fighting in Ukraine is driving wheat prices higher, meet a veteran rice farmer helping the next generation take the reins during one of the toughest farm economies in decades, and visit Southe

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – Bertha has dissipated over TX, and now conditions improve throughout the Gulf Coast. Thankfully, no new tropical development is expected for the week ahead. Highs in the mid 90s inland today, and low 90s near the coast. Winds very calm around mph out of the SSW. Mid 90s through the weekend […]

Mayor Helena Moreno's new blight task force aims to move some of New Orleans' 6,500 adjudicated properties back into commerce, with focused work starting in the Lower 9th Ward and Hoffman Triangle. Citywide, more than 5,700 of those parcels are vacant lots, and over 3,800 have sat that way for...

A Marrero woman who investigators say was first treated as a possible victim is now accused of being the brains behind an AI-fueled sextortion scheme that rattled multiple people in Livingston Parish. Deputies say she set up fake online accounts, generated nude images with artificial intelligence and used them to threa

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating after a woman is accused of stabbing a child in the Seventh Ward. According to police, on Thursday, officers responded to a home in the 2500 block of AP Tureaud Avenue after reports of a stabbing. Police say a woman told children to...

A New Orleans Police Department sergeant was terminated Thursday on multiple counts of payroll violations and submitting inaccurate reports, NOPD officials confirmed. Henry Burke, 58, had been suspended without pay since his February arrest by NOPD's Public Integrity Bureau on four counts of public payroll fraud and si