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A new four-story apartment building officially opens this week on the former Navy base in Algiers known as Federal City, the first of two residential projects on a site where developers say they are now making progress in creating a community of businesses, recreation, retailers and affordable housing. The 70-unit...

The screech owl was tinier than Pippin Frisbie-Calder expected, which made him all the more perfect. Then he winked at her. Technically, it's more of a blink that happens when an owl's eyelids fall out of sync, but Frisbie-Calder didn't care. To her, it was a wink, and she lifted...

If you’ve ever driven around New Orleans, you may have passed by, never noticing a 15-mile-long wire that quietly circles a large part of the city.

Joshua Every, a 32-year-old man from Laplace, has accepted a life sentence at hard labor without the possibility of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence after pleading guilty to the first-degree murder of Taylor Friloux during a 2016 robbery at a Kenner Raising Cane’s, effectively avoiding a potential death...

NOPD is investigating a shooting in Algiers that left three people hurt. Another shooting in Algiers took place a short while later at around 6pm. It is believed to have occurred in the 3700 block of Garden Oaks Drive.

The New Orleans Police Department is on the scene of a triple shooting in Algiers.

At least ten fire trucks blocked off two blocks of Bourbon Street late Sunday morning as New Orleans firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze inside the Royal Sonesta hotel. The fire, reported around 11:15 a.m., forced guests out of the iconic French Quarter landmark and drew crowds of tourists to watch as crews...

BATON ROUGE - The 1st Circuit Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the second-degree murder conviction for a woman accused of poisoning her domestic partner, rejecting her argument that the evidence against her was insufficient. A three-judge panel ruled against Meshell Hale, who was convicted of killing Damian Paul...

The Casket Girls’ Vampire Legend at Ursuline Convent. New Orleans has a dark tale that still haunts its old streets. Between 1704 and 1728, France sent young women to Louisiana as wives for male settlers. These "Casket Girls," named for the small trunks they brought, looked ghostly pale after...

NEW ORLEANS — Community members came together in Metairie on Saturday to mourn the loss of 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez, a nonverbal child whose disappearance last month ended in tragedy. Vasquez was reported missing from his home on Beaucaire Street in New Orleans East on Aug. 14. Surveillance footage later...