John Willis Menard was elected to Congress with 68 percent of the vote in an 1868 special election to fill the term of a ...

Tulane University students and activists are alleging that the TUPD used violence to break up a protest opposing an event ...

The judge overseeing a 10-year-old legal agreement, requiring intensive monitoring of special education in New Orleans, has ...

Two men are campaigning for the office of the Orleans Parish clerk of Criminal District Court, and with early voting over, ...

The New Orleans City Council on Thursday (Nov. 13) discussed an emergency loan that aims to meet payroll expenses in the ...

The Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center appears to have been operating well over its contracted capacity since April.

Hurricane Ida revealed a fragile insurance industry ill-prepared for the consequences of climate change. More than four years ...

The only reliable way to increase tax revenue coming into the city coffers is to grow the economy and attract new business ...

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Hicks had several leadership roles during the movement in Bogalusa: Lead founder of the Bogalusa chapter of the Deacons for ...

Carlos Guerra Leon, 18, had been held for more than three months in immigration lockup in north Louisiana even though he was ...

The state hopes to dissolve a 2013 court settlement that led to the jail's current immigration policy, which prohibits jail ...