| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Essence Fest Propels Inspirational Kids’ STEM Book | Panoramic view of the Courtney Kelly Books booth in the WeLoveUs Marketplace at Essence Festival 2026
Courtney stands next to the Founder Feature Wall installation at the New Voices Village during ESSENCE Fest 2026
Courtney Kelly (far right... |
| Nov 2, 2025 | Пропавшая 13-летняя девочка найдена в ящике в подвале | Тринадцатилетняя девочка из Луизианы, которая пропала без вести после того, как познакомилась с мужчиной в Интернете, была найдена живой в ящике в его доме в Пенсильвании, в нескольких штатах от него, вместе с доказательствами того, что она... |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Parent Leadership Collaborative (PLC) Unites Families and Providers to Build a Better Future for Greater New Orleans | The Parent Leadership Collaborative, led by parents and caregivers, aims to change that dynamic by reviewing service providers offering early childhood care services, ensuring quality and accountability.
The PLC champions a set of standards... |
| Jun 13, 2024 | Here's the status of New Orleans' levees and power grid heading into hurricane season | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
All eyes are on New Orleans' infrastructure as another hurricane season begins — especially the power grid, drains and levees.
Why it matters: Leaders say storm-... |
| May 29, 2024 | Louisiana to become 1st state requiring Ten Commandments be posted in schools | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Louisiana will become the first state to require the Ten Commandments be displayed in all schools and colleges that receive public funding, if Gov. Jeff Landry signs a new bill into law.
Catch up quic... |
| May 27, 2024 | Manhunt in Louisiana still on for 2 escapees, including 1 homicide suspect | Authorities in Louisiana are searching for two inmates who escaped from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail, just north of New Orleans, after catching two others who escaped at the same time — and three of the four are homicide suspects, the parish ... |
| May 9, 2024 | Louisiana opts in to Summer EBT program: Here's who can apply | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Louisiana will participate this year in the federal Summer EBT program that offers families extra financial support to feed their school-aged children.
Why it matters: The decision reverses course on ... |
| May 1, 2024 | With a month to go, Landry hasn't yet scored a major Louisiana Legislature win | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Louisiana legislative session has passed its halfway mark for 2024, leaving just about a month left to go.
Why it matters: There's still time, but so far, lawmakers have yet to hand first-yea... |
| May 1, 2024 | Violence breaks out at some pro-Palestinian campus protests | Dueling groups of protesters clashed Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another. Hours earlier, police burst into a building at Columbia Universi... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Pro-Palestinian protests spread, get more heated as schools' reactions differ | In an extraordinary scene, New York City police officers entered the Columbia University campus Tuesday night after dozens of protesters took over a campus building in New York, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Truck driver charged with negligent homicide in deadly "super fog" 168-car pileup in Louisiana | A Louisiana truck driver has been arrested on multiple charges, including negligent homicide, for the state's 168-car "super fog" pileup in October. Eight people were killed in the pileup, including one man who police said di... |
| Mar 13, 2024 | NOPD chief says rats are getting high after eating weed in evidence. Scientists weigh in. | NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says rats are getting high after eating marijuana in the evidence room, but how do you tell?
Why it matters: This claim is making national headlines and inquiring minds want to know how weed affects rats... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | New Orleans police evidence room overrun by rodents, officials say: "The rats are eating our marijuana" | Rats eat marijuana in New Orleans evidence room: "They're all high," police chief says
Rats eat marijuana in New Orleans evidence room: "They're all high," police chief says 00:38
The only creatures that seem t... |
| Mar 8, 2024 | LaToya Cantrell to get locked out of Pontalba apartment, ending city scandal | The New Orleans City Council is washing its hands of the Upper Pontalba apartment, an issue members on Thursday called an "embarrassment" and a "silly distraction."
Why it matters: This hopefully wraps up the latest publ... |
| Feb 28, 2024 | New Orleans to directly operate first non-charter public school in 18 years | NOLA Public Schools will begin operating the new Leah Chase School in the fall, taking over the Uptown building currently occupied by Lafayette Academy on Carrollton Avenue.
Why it matters: It'll be the first direct-run public school i... |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Calls heat up for Nyx to have parade permit revoked | Calls to pull the Krewe of Nyx's Mardi Gras permit reignited on social media Wednesday night, alongside photos of a less-crowded-than-usual parade route.
Why it matters: The krewe occupies a high-profile nighttime spot on the parade sc... |
| Feb 5, 2024 | What we’re watching: Weekly disaster update, February 5 | We know all too well that disaster can strike anytime, anywhere in the world. Some disasters make headlines; others do not. Here at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), we monitor the status of disasters worldwide and compile a list ... |
| Jan 17, 2024 | Another cold front on the way for New Orleans metro | New Orleans metro has a bitterly cold week in the forecast, courtesy of an arctic blast and another strong cold front on the way.
Why it matters: The freezing temps are dangerous to people, pets, pipes and plants. Take precautions.
Temps wi... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | New Orleans officials to clear Treme homeless encampment by Mardi Gras | New Orleans officials say they plan to clear the Treme encampment of unhoused people by Mardi Gras.
Why it matters: Under pressure from residents and business owners, city officials announced plans last fall to clear large encampments by tr... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | A Southwest Airlines passenger caused panic after jumping out of an emergency exit and attempting to steal a truck | A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737. Robert Alexander/Getty Images
Redeem now
A passenger opened an emergency exit and jumped out of a stationary plane in New Orleans, local authorities confirmed.
Video posted of the incident online shows confu... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Louisiana had the worst natural disaster displacement in the country last year | Data: Census Bureau; Map: Axios Visuals
Louisiana had the biggest percentage of people who said they were displaced last year because of a natural disaster, per the latest U.S. Census Bureau data.
8.3% of Louisianans said they were displace... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Louisiana laws that go into effect in August | Gov. John Bel Edwards signed more than 100 bills into law during the most recent legislative session, with many going into effect Tuesday.
Others, like the state ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, go into effect Jan. 1.
Wha... |
| Jul 6, 2023 | Owner of popular New Orleans deli "banged up" after being pistol-whipped during carjacking | Dan Stein, owner of Stein's Deli, was "banged up" after being carjacked and pistol-whipped on Magazine Street overnight, according to his Instagram account and New Orleans police.
Driving the news: Stein, 50, was carjacked ar... |
| Jul 2, 2023 | Spotify Faces Legal Trouble Over Unauthorized Use of Essence Festival Branding | John Lopez, Tech Times 02 July 2023, 08:07 am
Spotify finds itself in legal hot water after hosting an event using the branding of the Essence Festival of Culture without permission.
As The Guardian reports, the festival's organizers h... |
| May 1, 2023 | Waiter killed, tourist wounded in shooting at popular New Orleans restaurant: "Everyone is feeling this" | A shooting outside a well-known New Orleans restaurant Friday killed an employee, and one bullet penetrated the restaurant and wounded a Chicago tourist visiting for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Interim New Orleans police Sup... |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Louisiana woman accused of killing boyfriend's 6-year-old daughter, leaving body in bucket outside home of girl's mother | A Louisiana woman accused of killing her boyfriend's 6-year-old daughter and leaving the child's body in a bucket outside the home where the girl's mother lives has been jailed without bond in a New Orleans suburb, authoritie... |
| Feb 24, 2023 | I celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, where I can get all the beads and king cake I want. Here's why it beats New Orleans' crowded festivities. | Travel I celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, where I can get all the beads and king cake I want. Here's why it beats New Orleans' crowded festivities.
Matthew Wilson
2023-02-24T16:10:00Z
Share icon An curved arrow pointing ri... |
| Feb 20, 2023 | 1 person killed in New Orleans shooting along Mardi Gras parade route, police say | Five people were shot at a Mardi Gras parade Sunday night and one died, New Orleans police said. One person was detained at the scene in connection with the gunfire.
Authorities identified the suspect as 21-year-old Mansour Mbodj during a n... |
| Jan 9, 2023 | Should rap lyrics be used in criminal trials? Formerly incarcerated rapper speaks about "egregious" conviction | If you meet McKinley Phipps now, he's a far cry from the 20-year-old, chart-climbing rapper known as Mac, signed to music mogul Master P's No Limit Records, whose 1998 album "Shell Shocked" reached No. 11 on the Billboar... |
| Dec 26, 2022 | Mass shooting in New Orleans leaves 2 dead, 4 wounded | An overnight mass shooting in New Orleans left two people dead and four others wounded, police said.
All the victims were in their late teens, police said. No one was in custody and no motive was known.
According to police, officers were ca... |
| Apr 23, 2022 | Fentanyl and alcohol killed University of New Orleans student Ciaya Whetstone, coroner says, as family demands answers about Uber driver | Alcohol and the powerful opioid fentanyl killed a student from South Carolina who was left at a hospital after watching parades 10 days before Mardi Gras, the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office reported Thursday.
"The family of Ciaya... |
| Feb 16, 2022 | NIH Announces 3rd HIV Remission! No Symptoms Detected for 14 Months After Stem Cell Transplant | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 16 February 2022, 01:02 am
NIH (National Institutes of Health) announced the third known case of HIV remission. The involved patient experienced no symptoms for the past 14 months after she completed her stem cell... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Longtime anchor Karen Swensen on stepping away from her TV career to find a new purpose: "Just trust the universe" | When WWL-TV anchor Karen Swensen decided to retire from the New Orleans local TV station, she paid tribute to a long list of people whose stories she told.
The award-winning journalist had been at the station for years—going through hardshi... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | U.S. Senate candidate Gary Chambers smokes marijuana in new campaign ad | Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Gary Chambers of Louisiana released an ad on Tuesday showing the candidate smoking marijuana while promoting a pathway toward legalizing the drug.
"I hope this ad works to not only destigmatize the use ... |
| Aug 14, 2021 | A Mississippi nurse said she quit her job in the ICU because she doesn’t ‘have any strength left’ after seeing her hospital overwhelmed amid low vaccination rates | Chaplain Kristin Michealsen holds the hand of a deceased COVID-19 patient while talking on the phone with the patient’s family member at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on January 9, 2021. Ja... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | New Apple technology will warn parents and children about sexually explicit photos in Messages | Apple later this year will roll out new tools that will warn children and parents if the child sends or receives sexually explicit photos through the Messages app. The feature is part of a handful of new technologies Apple is introducing th... |
| Aug 2, 2021 | For many, the belated realization that Covid will be ‘a long war’ sparks anger and denial | In May, when the CDC said fully vaccinated people could ditch masks and social distancing, it seemed to signal a return to normalcy. But epidemiologists cautioned at the time that the move wasn’t likely to be permanent, and shouldn’t be int... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | 2 US women dressed up as grannies to try and get a Covid-19 vaccine, official says | A COVID-19 drive-thru vaccination site at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Two women pretended to be elderly women to get a Covid-19 vaccination in Florida, an official said.
T... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | 2 Florida women dressed up as grannies to try and get a COVID-19 vaccine, official says | A COVID-19 drive-thru vaccination site at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Two women pretended to be elderly women to get a COVID-19 vaccination in Florida, an official said.
T... |
| Feb 13, 2021 | Another Keytruda combo tops standard of care in advanced kidney cancer, posing new test for Bristol's I/O med | Covid-19 testing in the US has been, well, a complete mess. Four months into the pandemic, lines for tests in some areas still stretch for miles, testing sites run out of spots minutes after opening, and people often wait more than a week t... |
| Jan 18, 2021 | Drew Brees And New Orleans Saints’ Playoff Struggles Reach Apex In Loss To Tampa Bay Buccaneers | In Drew Brees' potential final game, he and the New Orleans Saints continued their playoff struggles ... [+] in a loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Oct 15, 2020 | Privacy Issues at the Heart of North Carolina’s Coronavirus Response | As Sen. Thom Tillis recuperates from his bout with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, North Carolina is continuing its phased reopening with eased restrictions on bars, movie theaters and amusement parks, and... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | STEM And Coronavirus: The Crisis Within The Crisis | At the start of 2020, few people had heard of the virus SARS-CoV-2 (a.k.a “the Coronavirus”) or COVID-19, the deadly disease it causes. In three short months, the nation has gone from hosting large gatherings to enjoy our favorite events (s... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | Google, Facebook launch location-based mapping efforts for Covid-19 | On Monday, Google launched community mobility reports, which pull in location data to see what has changed as residents of different states stay at home. In New York, for example, the report said retail and recreation activity was down 62% ... |
| Oct 29, 2019 | ICE Has Been Ramping Up Its Work With a Private Prison Company Connected to Horrific Allegations | Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here.
Migrants held in detention centers owned by a private prison company in Louisiana say they’re berated by guards, given moldy food, and placed in solitary confinement for prote... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Louisiana regulators will vote on whether or not to kill net metering | Yesterday we reported on pending changes to net metering in Louisiana, which regulators will take up at their meeting on Wednesday, September 11. And while we based our analysis of the proposal on a filing in the docket, unbeknownst to us l... |
| Oct 29, 2018 | Reports: Rapper Young Greatness Fatally Shot in New Orleans | Young Greatness, the New Orleans rapper who rose to fame with the buoyant single "Moolah" in 2016, died this morning after being shot outside a Waffle House in New Orleans. He was 34. The news was first reported by local stations ... |
| Apr 11, 2018 | City’s traffic cameras giving speeding tickets to parked cars | Originally Published by:
Philadelphia trash truck smashes row of parked cars Rachel Dolezal brags about successful hair salon on Instagram 'Supermom' of 16 drives kids to 88 sports practices a week
A New Orleans resident has recei... |
| Sep 13, 2017 | Critic-Raiding Sheriff Settles With Bloggers Who Sued Him Over His Unconstitutional Actions | Now that Terre Bonne Parish sheriff Jerry Larpenter has had his immunity stripped by a federal court, it appears he’s ready to pay up to keep the damages from mounting. Sheriff Larpenter abused a terrible law — Louisiana’s still-on-the-book... |
| Oct 3, 2016 | BP completes oil spill payments, complaints remain | BP hit a milestone in the last week of September as it completed its payments to seafood companies resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, but it is still hearing complaints about the way it has gone about remunerating compa... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | Louisiana lays out 3 housing options for flood victims | State leaders in Louisiana laid out three different housing options for residents whose homes were destroyed in the recent flooding, according to an article by WWL.
Unprecedented flooding in Louisiana led to the rescue of more than 20,000 p... |
| Aug 11, 2016 | Judge Who Signed 'Criminal Defamation' Warrant For Sheriff's Raid Of Blogger's House Says Warrant Perfectly Fine | Nothing’s going to stop Louisiana sheriff Jerry Larpenter from defending his good name. If you “print lies” about the sheriff, he’ll “come after you.” He’ll have to use a criminal complaint filed by someone else (insurance agent Tony Alford... |
| Aug 5, 2016 | Sheriff Uses Unconstitutional Law To Raid Home And Seize Electronics Belonging To Watchdog Blogger | A Louisiana sheriff has just inserted himself into a mess of First and Fourth Amendment violations by using his power to go after an anonymous blogger who claimed he was corrupt. Naomi LaChance of The Intercept has more details. |
| Apr 8, 2015 | Can New Orleans Heal Now That We Know Cops Shot, Killed, and Burned a Black Man After Katrina? | With the very symbolic stroke of a pen, New Orleans coroner Jeffrey Rouse did his part last week to mitigate ten years of suspicion, mistrust, and guilt left behind after Hurricane Katrina.
In officially reclassifying the death of Henry Glo... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | Should The Punishment For Falsely Accusing People Of A Crime Match The Punishment For The Crime Itself? | Two very different stories, but both with some startling parallels. |
| Nov 30, 2014 | Best Cyber Monday Sale Deals Beat Black Friday: Analyst Tips On How To Get The Best Deals | James Geddes, Tech Times 30 November 2014, 04:11 pm
A deal analyst has proclaimed that this year for the first time, Cyber Monday will be better than Black Friday for holiday deals and discounts. He also offered some interesting tips and ti... |
| Sep 8, 2014 | New Orleans Cab Company Owner Calls Uber A 'Cyber-Terrorist Group' | Cab companies are still fighting Uber and Lyft, and each turf war seems to drag out the worst rhetorical devices and statements from these companies which have enjoyed long, monopolistic runs. Most have gone running to city legislators, hop... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | New Orleans's War on Music | St. Roch's Tavern, which was recently closed for two weeks by the city. Photo by Zack Smith
Louisiana’s Department of Tourism recently launched a new ad campaign that declared, “No America We Will Not ‘Turn That Music Down.’” But on th... |
| Apr 18, 2006 | Will They Photoshop The Ballots In The New Orleans Mayoral Election Too? | Last week, there was some amusing buzz on various blogs about one of the many candidates for mayor of New Orleans. Beyond some questions concerning “conflict of interest” over the fact that her day job involves supervising a fair election, ... |
| Google, Facebook launch location-based mapping efforts for Covid-19 | Facebook’s co-location map aggregates users’ location data to map frequent travel patterns. Disease modelers could use it to determine how Covid-19 might spread.
Google and Facebook are launching their own toolsets to help researchers predi... |
| Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage | Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum wage above the federal $7.25 an hour standard, 16 have more than 12% of their children living in poverty, according to a States Newsroom analysis of wage and poverty data. Anti-poverty ... |
| The New Orleans elderly community ‘left to die’ after a hurricane | New Orleans, United States – Hurricane Ida was not Michael Corolla’s first storm.
As a young merchant seaman, he weathered three separate hurricanes in the open ocean, riding supertankers up the crests of 15 metre (50ft) waves in the middle... |