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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The New Orleans City Council is preparing to take on expanded oversight of the Sewerage and Water Board as council members consider a proposed ordinance aimed at improving the city’s aging sewerage, drainage and drinking water systems. The council is scheduled to discuss the 13-page...

Murder takes center stage in a pair of plays stretching across the breadth of the metro area as summer slinks on and music makes the mayhem go 'round. Offerings at the Westwego Performing Arts Theatre of Jefferson Performing Arts have blossomed to include some full-scale musicals and other Broadway hits.

A few tables were seated for early dinner one night at Compère Lapin, but the real action at chef Nina Compton’s restaurant was at the bar. A crowd of mostly women was chatting and circulating as they sipped special rum cocktails and noshed bar snacks from Compton’s menu and also from guest chef Lisa Nelson, of Mid-Cit

WDSU Investigates has learned new details in our investigation into an evicted New Orleans funeral home. A recently filed lawsuit alleges a mother’s body decomposed, as the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors confirms it is investigating Gary Lewis, owner of New Orleans Cremation Service Inc. WDSU.

New Orleans city officials announced on Monday that $97,500 in grant funding will go to 26 businesses impacted by ongoing construction in the French Quarter along Decatur and St. Peter streets — to mixed reaction from local shops. Applicants approved for the “Business Stabilization Fund” were notified late last...

July is Disability Rights Month, so we are taking the time to recognize passionate Louisiana activist April Dunn. Born with both fetal alcohol syndrome and cerebral palsy, Dunn was passionate about increasing educational opportunities for people with disabilities, even advocating for the passage of the April Dunn Act i

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno said the city must continue pushing to reduce shootings as police search for one of two men accused of exchanging gunfire near Canal Street and wounding a bystander. “We’ve had historic reductions in violent crime, but one shooting is too many....

NEW ORLEANS — Multiple Orleans Justice Center inmates started fires in their cells on July 5, then attacked the deputies sent to move them to a disciplinary pod, according to court records. Inmates also fought each other, threatened to jump from a second-story mezzanine, and bit and punched deputies.

New Orleans police are asking for help finding Patrick Cowart, who investigators say pulled a gun on someone during a heated argument Monday evening in New Orleans East. The confrontation happened around 5:35 p.m. in the 7000 block of Bunker Hill Road, and a warrant for Cowart's arrest is now on file. Seventh District

One month after a pregnant woman died of an overdose at a Gretna motel, investigators have arrested her boyfriend and the dealer who is accused of providing the drugs to the couple, according to authorities. Ricky Ripp, 44, of Gretna, and Greg Trahan, 51, of Marrero, were booked Monday on...