Carrying “off the chart” amounts of moisture, Barry crawled ashore Saturday in Louisiana and quickly weakened to a tropical storm that promised to dump heavy rains that could last for days and pose a test of the flood-prevention systems built after Hurricane Katrina 14 years ago.
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Even as Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Mississippi River’s levees held up when those in other parts of the city did not.
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A potential tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico presents twin troubles for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi — the possibility that the flooded Mississippi River will strain the levees this weekend, and a danger of flash floods like the one that unexpectedly walloped New Orleans on Wednesday.
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Floodwaters swamped streets in New Orleans’ French Quarter on Wednesday and prompted a tornado warning in the area amid concerns that even worse weather is on the way to Louisiana and other states along the Gulf of Mexico.
Read moreA federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of a man who posted an unflattering mural of Donald Trump, and was threatened by New Orleans with criminal prosecution for violating an unconstitutional zoning ordinance.
Read moreDr. John, the New Orleans singer and piano player who blended black and white musical styles with a hoodoo-infused stage persona and gravelly bayou drawl, died Thursday, his family said. He was 77.
Read moreThe streets of New Orleans will be filled Tuesday with excited kids catching beads from atop ladders, revelers in fancy costumes walking through the French Quarter and Mardi Gras Indians wearing finely beaded costumes.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday refused to dismiss claims that the Orleans Parish District Attorney and individual prosecutors created “fake subpoenas” to threaten and jail crime victims and witnesses so they give testimony.
Read moreA prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television’s English-language service has been arrested after flying into the U.S., the broadcaster reported Wednesday. U.S. law enforcement agencies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Read moreElectricity supplier Entergy New Orleans claims in court that a Virginia-based public relations firm hired actors instead of recruiting supporters to speak at public meetings in favor of a proposed power plant, spurring a costly investigation into whether the utility knew its backers were paid.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a claim that New Orleans is trying to enforce “an unconstitutional content-based regulation and prior restraint of speech” regarding a mural on one man’s property featuring “two vulgar words used by [Donald] Trump” on an “Access Hollywood” tape.
Read moreOrleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman says The New York Times defamed him and his office in a July 9 video op-ed in which a former jail inmate claims he was raped and sold into sexual slavery for $20 in commissary items.
Read moreNew Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in May for his removal of four Confederate statues that were formerly prominently placed around the city, the Kennedy Library Foundation announced Tuesday.
Read moreA New Orleans resident who has been threatened with a fine and jail time if he does not remove a mural depicting a notorious comment made by President Donald Trump sued the city Tuesday for constitutional violations.
Read moreBy charging poor prisoners fees they are unable to pay and relying on those fees to fund the court and pay salaries, Orleans Parish Criminal District Court is violating the Constitution, a federal judge ruled this week.
Read moreTyson Foods should reduce its agricultural pollution to stop poisoning drinking water and contributing to the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, dozens of New Orleans nonprofits and businesses said in a Wednesday letter to the multinational meat company.
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