The New Orleans Notarial Archives is one of the city's hidden research gems. The archives hold some 40 million pages of ...

WDSU investigates the tool that has helped catch fugitives but sparked a fierce debate over privacy, power and public trust.

New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officials have launched an investigation into a homicide that occurred in the city's Fifth District.

Five inmates remain missing after a major New Orleans jail escape, as arrests grow and a joint task force of federal and local agents leads the search.

Still at large, Derrick Groves is the grandson of Kim Groves, murdered in 1994 on orders from NOPD officer Len Davis — one of New Orleans’ most notorious police corruption cases.

The ordinance would provide sex workers immunity from arrest when seeking help from local law enforcement officers. But State Police troopers in the city don’t have to follow it.

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) can end its longstanding federal oversight, thus approving the sustainment ...

New Orleans Police officials walk out of Federal Court on January 14. A judge ruled the NOPD can begin the process of ending long-standing federal oversight.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Police Department can begin ending its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled Tuesday in response to a request from the city and the Justice Department ...

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, center, chats with U.S. Justice Department deputy monitor David Douglass, left, in Federal Court, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, in New Orleans, after a ...