City leaders recently dusted off an ordinance proposed over a decade ago to develop a program requiring large building owners ...

With a steady drumbeat, Jordan Bankston Noble helped the United States defeat the British during the Battle of New Orleans.

State and local officials are preparing for possible changes to federal disaster relief following President Donald Trump’s ...

Jemima Joél Brady was looking forward to attending Paul B. Habans Elementary School, the neighborhood school where her older ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

The Ashé Cultural Arts Center held a gathering at Congo Square and led a procession through Tremé Saturday morning (July 5) ...

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and ...

Hundreds of people from one of the country’s largest labor unions amassed in New Orleans on Tuesday (July 1) afternoon to ...

A New Orleans woman is being held in an immigration detention center in Basile, Louisiana after getting arrested at her ...

Alice Craft-Kerney had been working as a nurse at Charity Hospital for over 19 years when Hurricane Katrina hit and disrupted her career.

Some members of the Black business community in New Orleans say they feel shut out by Essence Fest organizers.

As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, ...