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Bruno’s Tavern on Maple Street has been practically an extension of college life for generations of students at nearby Tulane and Loyola universities, with a history going back more than 90 years. More recently, though, Bruno’s was on the rocks. Its future looked uncertain because of foreclosure proceedings and...

The Chuckster pledged to donate $1 million to St. Mary’s High School in New Orleans.

Satchmo SummerFest is rolling back into New Orleans for its 26th edition on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 1-2, packing two days of free music, talks and food into the New Orleans Jazz Museum and the surrounding streets. On tap: Kermit Ruffins’s annual salute to Louis Armstrong, a Satchmo Salute second-line snaking through

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Robert Hodges officially announced his retirement in a statement he sent to his department Friday morning. Hodges will retire in the fall. WAFB’s I-TEAM previously reported in early May that he was expected to step down in the coming months,...

Certain properties in New Orleans become available for purchase only once in a lifetime. That can be particularly true of the many mansions that fill the Garden District and sections of Uptown. But when the stars align just right, a heavenly slice of Crescent City architecture is offered: 2423 Prytania...

Somewhere between a gas station snack and a civic institution, the Hubig’s fried pie occupies a category entirely its own in New Orleans. Simon Hubig founded his pie company in Fort Worth in 1922, and the New Orleans bakery opened that same year on Dauphine Street in the Faubourg Marigny, just blocks from the Ninth […]

Chef Emeril Lagasse is no stranger to the flavors of Louisiana. The iconic chef opened his first restaurant, Emeril’s Restaurant, in 1990 in New Orleans, and has been incorporating the flavors of his hometown into his culinary endeavors ever since. In fact, there’s a dish that appeared on the...

After overcoming financing issues, soaring construction costs and an copper thefts by tunneling burglars, the owners of the former Archdiocese of New Orleans administration building in downtown New Orleans are set to re-open the 12-story office tower as a new hotel. Lafayette developers Sam Mohd and Rohan Dawra said th

Irish Channel community members rallied this week in support of "the nicest person in the world" — a beloved Nick's Supermarket clerk who was critically injured in a machete attack after confronting an alleged shoplifter Monday morning. "The neighborhood reveres the guy. He's a great human being running the...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans fared well compared to other parishes during Thursday’s severe weather, but Mayor Helena Moreno expressed concern about a failure at the Sewerage and Water Board’s new power complex at the Carrollton plant. The plant had issues with its frequency changers and went...