Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng says she asked school district officials to consider a late start date for the school year because of the ongoing pandemic. We spoke with her Thursday following an emotionally charged school board meeting Wednesday night.
The U.S. Marshal’s New Orleans Task Force is seeking help in their search for a New Orleans Police Department sex offender fugitive, 35-year-old Roland “Michael” Nelson Jr.
After six days, 18 hours, and 504 words delivered through 31 rounds of spelling, 13 year old Zaila Avant-Garde, a 7th grader from Harvey, LA, beat out 88 of the best young spellers in the country to win the first ever Kaplan Online Spelling Bee,
Jefferson Parish bar owners and their attorneys began making their case Wednesday, Aug. 5 that Gov. John Bel Edwards overstepped his legal boundaries by ordering bars to close and banning gatherings that involve more than 50 people.
Hot & mostly dry conditions continue today. Only a stray storm is possible along the coast. High temperatures will reach the low to mid 90s across the area. The dry trend will continue to finish out the week, but humidity will gradually creep back in this weekend.
A “handful” of Jefferson Parish School System employees has tested positive for COVID-19 since the soft opening on Monday (Aug. 3), according to spokesperson Vicki Bristol.
Due to the continued increase in COVID-19 numbers across the country the company has made the decision to remain shutdown and cancel all upcoming cruises.
A hyperactive hurricane season is ongoing in the Atlantic Basin in 2020 and the new update out of Colorado State University is for that trend to continue through the peak of the season.
We’ll stay hot and mostly dry for the rest of the week. Only a stray storm is possible in the Bayou Parishes or along the coast. The heat index will reach near 100 in the afternoon but not much higher thanks to dry air.
The August election may not drive as many people to the polls, but with three millage renewals on the ballot, Gretna mayor Belinda Constant says it’s a very important election.
It’s a Louisiana state park that is located in an area where native people lived thousands of years ago. Today, there is great fishing and a beach for swimming near the site of ancient mounds.
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) announced Tuesday, Aug. 4 that it has its first reported case of a dog in the state testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans.
The St. Tammany Zoning Commission was scheduled to take up two controversial projects Tuesday night including one which could set the stage for a landfill north of Lacombe but have decided to table it for now.
While deaths are down in 2020 a disturbing trend is showing up this year with the largely preventable deaths. In 2018 and 2019 more than 100 children died in the United States in hot car tragedies.
A Jefferson Parish woman was arrested after she was asked to leave a store at Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie because she was not wearing a mask but decided to stay.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and the governors of five other states announced a major bipartisan interstate compact with the Rockefeller Foundation today to expand the use of rapid point-of-care antigen tests to slow the spread of COVID-19 and continue safely reopening the states.
A combination of the high tide and storm surge from Hurricane Isaias appears to have resulted in the deaths of over 100 baby sea turtles in the Cherry Grove area of North Myrtle Beach.
Beginning Tuesday, Sewerage and Water Board will make a second attempt at making repairs to a large water main on Marconi Drive and the project may cause some issues for Lakeview residents
Thanks to ample dry air, little rain is expected for the rest of the week. We’ll be hot with highs in the low to mid 90s, but that’s typical for early August. The humidity will be a bit lower than usual, though, so that will keep the heat index close to 100.
A spokeswoman with the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal (LAOSFM) says more than 8,100 businesses across the state have been inspected for coronavirus restriction violations since May.
Two recent studies suggest younger kids could be potentially more contagious. Since the beginning of the pandemic one of the many baffling phenomenon centers around children and how they handle the virus.
The Archdiocese of New Orleans removed a deacon from ministry Monday following a report of abuse. V.M. Wheeler has been assigned to St. Francis Xavier in Metaire since his ordination in 2018. Wheeler is also a partner at New Orleans law firm, Chaffe McCall, LLP.
