A proposal to triple the budget of a local fire station died in the Harahan City Council. The Harahan Fire Department says they’ve been operating on a shoe string budget and that if something isn’t done, it will impact service calls.
After hours of comment from the public, the city council voted in favor of a zoning change for a mixed-income housing complex on Royal Street in the Bywater neighborhood.
A Senate committee has approved a bill that would divert money currently earmarked for state savings accounts to construct a new LA 415 to LA 1 connector.
When night draws its blanket of darkness across the mourning Opelika subdivision that Auburn police officer William Buechner shared with his family, you can see the signs of solidarity.
With a juvenile crime problem escalating across New Orleans, Mayor Latoya Cantrell said one way to effectively stop it would be to create Evening Reporting Centers.
A new commitment has brought new excitement and new jobs to the Michoud assembly plant in the east. Vice president Mike Pence says the first woman should walk on the moon by the year 2024 and New Orleans will build the rocket that will bring her there.
The tornado cut a path about 3 miles long and a mile wide from the south end of Jefferson City north toward the Missouri River, said police Lt. David Williams.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to John Ehret High School in Marrero Tuesday (May 23) after reports of several fights on campus.
A hearing is scheduled to take place Thursday (May 23) in the case of a man accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend at a Bourbon St. restaurant.
“The Freshen Up” tour is McCartney’s first outing following the release of his new studio album, “Egypt Station,” released September 7 on Capitol Records and generating rave reviews.
Earl Armstrong thinks back to a dangerous walk, “About halfway down I said I hope the road is still there down on that other end because if it wasn’t, we were going to have to swim." The 25-year-old, his father and uncle had planned to stay in his house, but the wind proved too much early on.
With a forecast for additional rises along the Lower Mississippi River during the next two weeks, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is now anticipating the opening of the Morganza Spillway to accommodate the excess water.
Lunch time brought hundreds of pro-choice activists to a protest in the New Orleans central business district on Wednesday. They attacked anti-abortion legislation in Louisiana and recently enacted abortion restrictions in some other states.
With hurricane season approaching, New Orleans emergency response leaders ran through their evacuation plan Wednesday, with the Smoothie King Center being the new center for that plan.
Detectives with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office and troopers from Louisiana State Police concluded a lengthy investigation Wednesday (May 22) with numerous search warrants and arrests being made related to a drug trafficking organization based out of Slidell.
NFL owners have given the competition committee the go-ahead to decide whether to refine the new rule allowing replay challenges involving pass interference.
Brunswick County Schools announced on Wednesday that beginning in the 2019-2020 school year, students at all BCS schools will receive free breakfast and lunch.
The Clarion Ledger reports that since 2016, lawmakers have mandated that the Mississippi Department of Education spend up to $45 million on specific programs.
The man charged in the armed robbery of a well-known television reporter is now accused in a double shooting and murder. Not only does he have a long criminal history that spans three parishes, but he also was out on bond at the time of the latest crime.
A member of the eleven-person board overseeing educational policies in Louisiana said he supports the scholarship system and says it is ‘working very well’ despite findings to the contrary in our recent Cost of Choice investigation.
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Lee Zurik,Kim Chatelain,Jess Clark andCody Lillich
As teachers at Dolores T. Aaron Academy were preparing for afternoon dismissal Tuesday (May 21), someone came into the parking lot and smashed the windows of 10 cars.
The House’s criminal justice committee approved a bill Tuesday, May 21 that would allow voters to decide whether sports betting will be legal in their parishes during the October election. Most revenue from any expansion would be dedicated to early childhood education.
Democrat State Representative Katrina Jackson spoke at the capitol Tuesday, May 21 about why she stands with the Senate as they passed House Bill 425, also known as the Love Life Amendment. The amendment would remove language from the state’s constitution securing the right to abortion.
Administrators at Ohio State University should release the names of all coaches, trainers and personnel who knew of but failed to act on complaints about a now-dead team doctor who sexually abused male students for nearly two decades, said attorneys for some of the victims.
Jealousy, competition, and fighting are a part of growing up with brothers and sisters. But in some cases, conflict between siblings is aggressive and can be harmful.
The man killed by police during a New Orleans East shootout has been identified as Donald Davis, Jr., according to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office.
A proposed bill swiftly making its way through the State Legislature could soon reduce the number of juveniles placed in youth detention centers across Louisiana.
