Louisiana drivers are more likely to die in car crashes because of speeding. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, or NHTSA, speed is a factor in 30 percent of ...

New Orleans Police announced Tuesday that officers arrested a Slidell man on illegal dumping charges. Cops say 26-year-old ...

Recent disagreements between the New Orleans city council and the mayor has the council president considering a charter ...

Tropical Storm Chantal weakened into a depression after sweeping inland across South Carolina into eastern North Carolina on ...

Three teenagers charged in the death of St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Sgt. Grant Candies appeared in court today for their ...

The New Orleans’ coroner’s office is dealing with an air conditioning outage. The coroner says the morgue’s coolers are still running, but the rest of the building, including where they perform ...

Part of the success story in New Orleans’ reduction in crime is how law enforcement has stayed flexible, and not let ...

New Orleans Police arrested a Slidell man on charges of illegal dumping. Police say 46-year-old Don Urban Cameron, Jr. drove ...

New Orleans will have elected a new mayor, and decided a dozen other offices, too. The campaigns are officially underway. With 14 candidates for mayor in all, voters have a lot more to choose ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. As the nation prepared for a couple of potentially wild political party conventions in 2024, it was interesting to look ...

Fourteen names will appear on the ballot for mayor of New Orleans this fall. Three incumbents were automatically reelected when no one signed up to run against them.

Thursday to override Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of $20 million to redevelop the vacant Charity Hospital building.