Southern University freshman nursing student Courtney Hughes and Booker T. Washington High senior Kyron Peters were killed in ...

NEW ORLEANS — The planned merger of Frederick Douglass High School with John F. Kennedy High School is raising concerns about shrinking school options for students in the Lower Ninth Ward, as closures ...

TEMPERATURES. ANOTHER WARM UP TREND FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER COOLDOWN COMING OUR WAY. ALL RIGHT. NEW AT FIVE. NEW ORLEANS POLICE INVESTIGATING A DOUBLE SHOOTING ON JORDAN STREET. OFFICERS SAY IT HAPPENED ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Police are investigating the city's latest murder, which happened a few blocks from where a man was killed a day earlier. Around 7:15 p.m., New Orleans police confirmed a fatal shooting ...

The Lake Borgne surge barrier is part of the overhaul of the metro New Orleans hurricane levee system that Congress authorized after Hurricane Katrina. The upgraded system is designed to keep out a ...