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NEW ORLEANS — Residents of Guste Homes in Central City will have their overdue water bills forgiven after officials took another step in ongoing efforts to prevent the potential displacement of hundreds of elderly and disabled tenants. Board members of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) unanimously voted...

The St. Augustine High School staff, on Thursday, May 21, announced the death of Superior General Most Rev. John Ricard, S.S.J.

Mayor Helena Moreno launched a new initiative on Thursday to repair and upgrade New Orleans' traffic signals, with the goal of improving traffic flow and making intersections safer for both pedestrians and drivers. The city manages more than 400 traffic signals, though much of the infrastructure is beyond its usable...

A New Orleans student is driving away with a new car after winning a giveaway hosted by NOLA Public Schools. 17-year-old Benjamin Vu was presented with a 2026 Toyota Corolla LE on the same day he graduated from The Willow School in Uptown. He was randomly selected in a raffle of 49 other students who achieved perfect a

South Louisiana’s coastline is slipping into the Gulf, but a cluster of scrappy startups is trying to stall the retreat with homegrown fixes. Recycled-glass sand, 3D-printed reef blocks, and drone-driven data maps are all part of a patchwork strategy that founders say could buy vulnerable communities time while the big

Jurors began deliberating Thursday afternoon in the murder trial of Cache Shelton after prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered sharply contrasting accounts of what happened inside a downtown New Orleans hotel room when Shelton’s boyfriend, Nicolas Harrison, was shot through the forehead in December 2022. The case

The New Orleans Police Department announced the arrest of multiple suspects in connection to several Desire area armed carjackings.

A teen whose ankle-monitor violations went unchecked for months led an armed Uber carjacking crew before a Desire-area SWAT standoff ended in his arrest Wednesday afternoon, authorities say. Ja’Maarion Banks, 19, and three juveniles, ages 16, 14 and 14, were booked on multiple counts of armed robbery, the New Orleans..

NEW ORLEANS – Shell’s Mars platform in the Gulf has reached a milestone, becoming the first offshore asset in the United States to produce one billion barrels of oil over its lifetime. The platform came online three decades ago and remains an important part of domestic offshore oil production.

A fifth suspect has been arrested in the disappearance and death of a father of four whose remains were found buried in the backyard of a Marrero home last month. Terrence Johnson, 45, of Harvey, was booked Wednesday with second-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping, unlawful disposal of remains and obstruction of ju