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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Happy Independence Day! We’re in for typical summertime Louisiana weather today. High heat, humidity, and a few pop-up storms. But higher rain chances are ahead. Expect today’s high to return to around 94 degrees. The humidity will make the feels-like temperature climb to around 105...

"People have this idea that voodoo is used for harm," says guide Andersen Gabrych, plunging a needle through the unblinking button eye of his feathered voodoo doll. "But these workshops are helping to change that narrative by showing how voodoo can actually be used for good, for healing." It's a...

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. The voices of children rose over Congo Square on June 11, 1864, as they sang to thousands of Black New Orleanians gathered for the city’s largest Freedom Jubilee celebration. Just a month earlier, delegates to Louisiana’s Free...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans police are investigating a deadly hit-and-run on the Danziger Bridge early Friday morning. Officers responded just before 4 a.m. to the 5400 block of Chef Menteur Highway, where they found a man dead in the westbound lanes. Police said a driver struck the pedestrian and left the scene.

CHICAGO —Amtrak’s City of New Orleans has not operated since Saturday, June 27, for reasons the company’s website has not publicly explained to potential travelers. Meanwhile, an eastern heat wave has led to bus substitutions for at least three round trips of the Raleigh-Charlotte, N.C., Piedmont because of host-railro

The Essence Festival has begun in New Orleans, offering three days of events focused on women empowerment, fashion, health, and beauty, while providing a significant economic boost to the city. Crowds are thickening as the festival gets underway, with police directing traffic near the convention center. Traffic is jam-

Friday, July 3, 2026 — New Orleans woke up to the kind of morning that feels like walking into a sauna, with readings near 81°F at the airport and thick humidity along the river. The National Weather Service is calling for a high near 92°F today, with a slight chance, about 20%, of showers and thunderstorms between 1 p

Essence was a monthly in my youth days. It became a six-times-a-year publication, then a quarterly publication. In recent years, the company published six magazines in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and four in 2025. The “Special Collector’s Edition” shared on Thursday is the first of 2026. The print edition didn’t go away, but

Across Jefferson Parish and New Orleans, renters say they were taken for a ride by someone pretending to be licensed realtors, complete with polished listings and official-sounding messages. The imposters allegedly copied legitimate property ads, then rushed applicants into paying application fees, deposits and the fir

The Mortuary Haunted Mansion has been spawning screams and horrifying New Orleans each fall for two decades now, but this Halloween it plans to expand its reign of terror with a new location on the northshore. Touted as Louisiana’s “newest and most intense nightmare,” The Sawmill Haunted House opens at...