The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted to nix the program to lower energy consumption and save customers money.

The Tulane-led study found people of color in Louisiana were underrepresented in high- and low-paying jobs at chemical plants ...

Top officials in the Cantrell administration have claimed for months that the city is headed toward a fiscal crisis. But new ...

The federal government has terminated two grants for African American history and culture awarded to the Whitney Plantation, ...

Last year, a man had a cardiac arrest toward the end of the Crescent City Classic. Local health care workers saved his life.

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill says that Orleans Parish jail policy for immigration detainers 'fundamentally at odds with state law ...

French Quarter Fest kicked off Thursday (April 10) in New Orleans’ most well-known neighborhood with dozens of performers, ...

The suit claims St. James Parish discriminates against majority-Black districts by approving most toxic chemical plants in ...

There was an eerie silence in New Orleans in the months after Katrina. Some of the sounds never came back in the same way.

New Orleans Pelicans star CJ McCollum and his wife Elise McCollum, a pediatric dentist, appeared at a New Orleans East ...

Several local reproductive justice organizations have teamed up to open a vending machine in New Orleans that will carry ...

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