Voters in New Orleans on Saturday (Nov. 15) gave the city the go-ahead to issue $510 million in bonds that will be used to ...

The New Orleans City Council is solidified after the final two districts were decided in runoff races on Saturday.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gayle Jenkins son, Willie Elliot Jenkins; sister, Geraldine Crawford Bennett; and daughter, Toni Breaux, during a 2011 oral history interview. Credit: Civil Rights History Project Collection, a joint ...