The New Orleans City Council has released a second round of proposed changes to its map of council districts ... in any earlier proposals. The Lower 9th Ward is shifted out of District E and ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Rev. Charles Duplessis navigated the new landscape of the Lower 9th Ward, crossing from newly paved streets to those still muddy and rutted as riverbeds. He drove past a ...

ED GORDON, host: I'm Ed Gordon, and this is NEWS & NOTES. On Thursday some New Orleanians will see their homes for the first time in three months. That's when parts of the city's Ninth Ward will ...

New Orleans – The last neighborhood in New Orleans that had remained closed after Hurricane Katrina reopened Thursday, with some residents of the Lower Ninth Ward saying they planned to abandon ...

There was no immediate indication that the rest of New Orleans was in danger from the new flooding in the Ninth Ward, a particularly low-lying part of the city that has been largely abandoned.