Louisiana's first fatality from Hurricane Laura has been reported as a 14-year-old girl, Governor John Bel Edwards said Thursday morning.

New Orleans residents and visitors must show proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a recent negative test to go inside restaurants, bars and other indoor venues, including the Caesars Superdome,

Correction: This story and its headline have been corrected to reflect two shootings, neither fatal, that took place last week, one of which police failed to report. The Times-Picayune regrets

A spasm of violence bloodied Canal Street in the early morning hours on Sunday, leaving 10 people shot in one of the worst mass shootings in New Orleans in years.

A slow-moving Hurricane Ida has left all of Orleans Parish customers without power due to "catastrophic transmission damage," according to Entergy New Orleans.

A body found in the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish was identified Wednesday as Kori Gauthier, the LSU freshman missing since last week whose disappearance rocked the

A 22-year-old man who graduated from St. Augustine High School and co-founded a local beverage company as a teenager was fatally shot Tuesday night near Audubon Park, according to friends

20-acre site sold at Interstate 10 Service Road at Read Boulevard

A young Louisiana woman died Monday after she was caught in a wave over the weekend in Orlando, according to St. John the Baptist Parish President Natalie Robottom.

On Saturday morning the Creole gumbo was simmering, the daiquiri machines were churning and the dryers were spinning at Melba's and Wash World, the connected po-boy shop and laundry at

He served 43 years in solitary confinement, perhaps the longest in U.S. history, before a federal court freed him in 2016.

Water was pouring into Nakia Stonom’s Hyundai after it plunged into Lake Pontchartrain Monday afternoon and was already covering her nose and mouth when the 25-year-old Covington woman summoned her

Never change, New Orleans.

Nancy Parker fell in love with journalism as a high-school student in Opelika, Alabama.

The threat of Tropical Storm Barry caused the huge Delta Sigma Theta sorority convention at the Morial Convention Center to end days early. But the meals that the members of

A concert by controversial rapper DaBaby scheduled for Friday (Sept. 2) at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans has been canceled.

140 mph wind, storm surge as high as 15 feet above ground, almost 2 feet of rain possible

She tested for coronavirus, and her results were delayed. Five days later, she was dead in her kitchen.

Zaila Avant-garde practices about seven hours a day

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has commented on a viral Facebook post by a former Gretna police officer that suggested the New York politician should be shot.

A massive failure of the transmission system that brings electricity to New Orleans and the east bank of Jefferson Parish left the city completely without power as Hurricane Ida slammed

Kelvin Oliver and his girlfriend, Nadia Payne, came to New Orleans Sunday to visit his mother and prepare for a vacation to Cancun, Mexico, where he planned a surprise marriage

St. Augustine High School, a historic Catholic high school for African American teenagers in New Orleans, announced a $1.5 million donation Wednesday as part of a coronavirus-relief fund run by

It’s a bonanza for New Orleans. Next year the Super Bowl will be held in the Superdome during the Carnival season. That means the hospitality industry will be booming for

A Southern University student and a nurse set to graduate next week from Nunez Community College were gunned down in Treme early Friday, according to friends.

Louisiana Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards plans to veto three bills that target LGBTQ+ people, he said Thursday, setting up a possible veto showdown with the state's Republican-controlled Legislat...

A plan is underway to buy a small batch of rundown houses along North Claiborne Avenue in the 8th Ward and convert them into living space for homeless transgender and

The 2020 crawfish season is off to a strong start, with reports of prices that are half what they were a year ago and two to three times the supply.

New Orleans bounce rapper Jerome “5th Ward Weebie” Cosey, whose career spanned from his own local standards "Let Me Find Out" and "F*** Katrina" to a cameo appearance on Drake’s

Protesters and police met in New Orleans on an interstate highway Tuesday night after days of protest in the city over the death of a black man at the hands

Zaila Avant-garde of Harvey, the 14-year-old who recently won the Scripps National Spelling Bee, celebrated her historic win during a drive-by parade and a second-line Sunday, July 18, 2021, in

She is being evaluated by medical personnel.

Zion Williamson gets it.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his wife Brittany announced on Monday that the two will be donating $5 million to build multiple health care centers throughout Louisiana in