New Orleans LA

I live in the Lower 9th Ward, and I can tell you why there are no grocery stores here. They are not economically viable, at least post-Katrina. Shortly after a Family Dollar store closed here, a mid-sized grocery store, St. Claude Fresh Market, with fresh produce and a deli, opened on St. Claude Avenue. During...

While many malls across the country and the region have struggled to stay viable in the face of shifting shopping habits, Lakeside Mall in Metairie has continued to be a perpetually busy shopping hub

The New Orleans Police Department is on the lookout for a suspect involved in a domestic simple robbery, as per an announcement on their official website. The incident, which took place last Saturday afternoon, at around 12:03 p.m., escalated from a verbal dispute to an alleged act of theft in a residence located in...

Senior members of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration are publicly breaking with Cantrell over her decision to switch French Quarter trash contractors at the end of the month, telling the city council they don’t think her preferred contractor is ready to do the job. At a July 21...

Six months after a serial burglary investigation began, the NOPD is hoping the public will take a second look at the suspect because the case remains unsolved. It's the latest one to roll on the Wheel of Justice.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office investigators say a Kenner man found dead in a Metairie neighborhood on Friday morning was lying in the roadway when he was hit by a vehicle. Shawn Morgan, 22, was pronounced dead after deputies were dispatched to a report of an unresponsive man at the intersection of Brockenbraugh...

The Housing Authority of New Orleans is relocating all 174 of its employees from their current dilapidated offices in Gentilly to three new locations in different parts of the city, which will allow the agency to better serve its tens of thousands of subsidized housing customers, according to HANO executive director...

Weeks after first-time summer camps by the Asher Institute Nola were forced to close for lack of funding, workers say they are battling bank overdraft fees and other financial strains after receiving late paychecks that bounced. Over 60 staff members began working at the tuition-free camps in June after Institute...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - One day before a court hearing in the ongoing French Quarter sanitation contract dispute, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill issued a scathing assessment against New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell. Murrill announced she was filing an amicus brief opposing Cantrell’s attempts to steer the work...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Belle Chasse man accused of trying to kill two law enforcement officers with his car last weekend on Bourbon Street will continue to be held without bond, an Orleans Parish Magistrate Court commissioner decided Tuesday (July 22). Mark Hunter Jr., 24, was denied bond at...