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Taylor Swift's new album drops Friday, and with it come a handful of parties for New Orleans Swifties to celebrate. Why it matters: The new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," is all glitz, and these events look like a great reason to shine a little bit. Zoom in: Swift...

Nearly a year and a half after city officials promised swift demolition of the former DeGaulle Manor apartment complex in Algiers, the eyesore still hulks over the neighborhood. Flanked by dump trucks and earth movers, officials with Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration announced in May 2024 that the sprawling...

New Orleans City Councilmember Joseph Giarrusso III has a long list of accomplishments he can point to with pride. Over nearly eight years representing District A, he has diligently worked to achieve the goals he set back in 2017 as a lawyer intent on improving municipal services in the city he grew up in.

Larry Morrow's portfolio is set to get even bigger now that he acquired the Subway property across the street from his first restaurant, Morrow's, on St. Claude Ave. in the Marigny. Morrow, the New Orleans restaurateur who launched Morrow Hospitality with his mother Lenora Chong, teased his plans for the...

A New Orleans man was arrested after firing a gun on Southern University's campus in 2022.

"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages. In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WAFB) - In New Orleans, the city’s architecture is often framed in iron, centuries of old balconies, fences, and gates that survived fires and hurricanes. And here at Andrew’s welding and blacksmith shop, Darrell Reeves is one of the few who still carry on the tradition.

Beignet Fest organizers have announced the food lineup for the 2025 event.

A man was arrested Saturday, Sept. 27 in connection with a homicide on Dumaine Street.

The opening week of Catholic League play featured a big District 9-5A doubleheader at Tad Gormley Stadium on Saturday.