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NEW ORLEANS, LA — Police in New Orleans recovered the body of a swimmer Tuesday morning from Lake Pontchartrain, two days after authorities said he drowned while swimming near Lakeshore Drive. The body was found at 9:40 a.m. near the 2000 block of Lakeshore Drive, close to the University of New Orleans.

A routine traffic stop along Interstate 20 in Lincoln Parish resulted in the arrest of a New Orleans woman after Louisiana State Police allegedly discovered suspected marijuana, ecstasy, and prescription medication during a vehicle search, according to court records and law enforcement officials. The incident occurred

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Surveillance video shows a 12-year-old boy being struck by an SUV near the corner of North Solomon and Toulouse streets in Mid-City just before 8:30 p.m. Tuesday (July 14), and the driver left him on the side of the road, according to the boy’s family.

At a time when most 16-year-olds are hitting the mall or loafing with friends, Isabella Walker was going through the labyrinthine permitting process with the Historic District Landmarks Commission, State Historic Preservation Office, National Park Service and New Orleans Department of Safety and Permits. In August 2024

When local blues guitar icon Little Freddie King rolled onto the Blues Tent stage in a throne-like wheelchair during the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, many fans thought that might be their last chance to see him perform. A series of accidents and ailments had left him unable...

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office carried out a court-ordered eviction Thursday at New Orleans Cremation Service Inc., removing human remains from the business and transferring them to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, officials said. Deputies enforced the order at the facility along I-10 Service Road and reported

Southeast Louisiana faces a dual weather threat as a tropical disturbance develops in the Gulf, alongside a rapidly intensifying midsummer heatwave. A broad area of low pressure currently situated southwest of Florida is being closely monitored by the National Hurricane Center. While the system currently maintains a re

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A hot and mainly dry weather pattern is settling across southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi, with temperatures climbing into the mid to upper 90s through the weekend. A few inland locations could approach 100 degrees, and when combined with Gulf humidity, heat index values will commonly rea

New Orleans Police are looking for an armed robber that stole a man’s luxury watch, but gave him another time piece in return.The victim said he met the suspect in a French Quarter bar and left with the man and a group of women.

You know when someone asks you about Louisiana, flooding probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Maybe you think about jazz music drifting through French Quarter streets, or steaming bowls of gumbo, or those massive oak trees draped in Spanish moss. But here’s the brutal truth: Louisiana is drowning, slowly