House Bill 479, brought by Rep. Mandie Landry (D-New Orleans), puts notification requirements on the state and parish jail leaders in the event of an escape. The bill gained traction after the May 16 ...

Officials with the New Orleans Police Department and city leaders cut the ribbon on a new, state-of-the-art kennel facility ...

NEW ORLEANS — Some residents in the Lower 9th Ward say a multi-million dollar grain terminal could reshape their community. Their biggest fear is the project redefining their neighborhood ...

Residents in the Lower Ninth Ward and parts of New Orleans East will no longer need to boil their water. The precautionary boil water advisory issued for the following areas has been canceled ...

NEW ORLEANS — Power has been restored to the nearly 800 customers who were without power in the Lower 9th Ward, according to the Entergy outage map. Customers in the area lost power around 10 p ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A woman was left wounded after a shooting in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward on Friday. The New Orleans Police Department says at 11:40 a.m., officers were called to the 1800 ...

One New Orleans-area TV station captured a tornado touching down in the city's Lower Ninth Ward. The Lower Ninth Ward is an impoverished neighborhood that gained national recognition when a levee ...

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating after a man was shot and killed Thursday morning in the Lower Ninth Ward. Police said the shooting happened in the 5100 block of St Claude Avenue ...

The tornado appeared to start in a New Orleans suburb and then move east across the Mississippi River into the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans and parts of St. Bernard Parish — both of which were ...

The final map, which will eventually shift thousands ... released contained a dramatic change to the Lower 9th Ward, separating it from New Orleans East in District E and consolidating it with ...

By Siddhartha Mitter NEW ORLEANS — The cookout in the new garden, guests agreed, upheld the cultural and convivial traditions of the Lower Ninth Ward. Herlin Riley, a celebrated jazz drummer ...

when Ashley Web and her husband moved to New Orleans from Los Angeles, they immediately knew something was missing in the ninth ward neighborhood. And I was used to like grocery stores being just ...