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A Bourbon Street musician's career is on the rise after competing on two reality singing competition shows, and now Jourdan Blue is performing at this year's Orpheuscapade on Lundi Gras.

NEW ORLEANS — A room in Janice Kimble’s home is covered wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling in Mardi Gras mementos. They represent more than a century of her family’s history. “I have history with the second line group, the Indian group and the Baby Dolls,” she said Wednesday....

A sanitation worked stepped out to empty a dumpster into his garbage truck on Lake Avenue in Metairie early Thursday morning when he overheard the sounds of someone screaming and banging. The worker quickly realized that there was someone trapped among the garbage in the back of his truck, according...

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police are investigating an early-morning shooting in the city’s Seabrook neighborhood. According to the New Orleans Police Department, officers were notified around 4:13 a.m. Saturday of a shooting at the intersection of Wales Street and Mullet Street. Police said an adult woman was...

The Audubon Nature Institute has named its new downtown riverfront park, currently under construction on the site of the former Esplanade Avenue and Gov. Nicholls Street wharves, Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park, following a donation last fall from the Goldring Family Foundation. Woldenberg Park next to the...

Louisiana State University Associate Professor Naohiro Kato is at it again. He and his students have produced 1,500 cool-looking, 3D-printed, biodegradable Carnival bead necklaces, some of which will be tossed from floats during the 2026 Freret and Tucks parades in New Orleans and the Artemis parade in Baton Rouge....

As the housing market predictions take shape for 2026, one thing is clear: home prices in Louisiana are sinking faster than in the rest of the country. Six metros in the state — including New Orleans, Lafayette and Shreveport — are among the nation’s 10 markets projected to see the steepest price declines over the...

A Jefferson Parish judge sentenced a Marrero man to 60 years in prison for a September 2022 manslaughter case.

Mardi Gras is upon us. Like right now. It’s one of those celebrations that’s over on that day. The parties and parades come before. The saying in New Orleans is that you are planning a party, on your way to a party or at a party. Sounds like party is the common thread.

Court records are shedding new light on the alleged relationship between a former Academy of the Sacred Heart teacher and a student, as the teacher made her first court appearance following her arrest. Teddi Page, who was fired from the Academy of the Sacred Heart earlier this week, is charged...