NEW ORLEANS — Nearly 100 pro-Palestinian protesters called for a ceasefire in Gaza Wednesday along Poydras Street in downtown New Orleans, according to Nola.com. Advocates set up chairs, banners, and barricades as they demanded that the U.S. "stop arming Israel", our partners reported. Several protesters were seen holding a "large Palestinian flag" amid traffic at the St. Charles Avenue intersection.

NEW ORLEANS — Sen. Heather Cloud, a Republican from central Louisiana is trying to resurrect a bill now on legislative life-support. Her legislation that would gut the state's public records law has attracted critics on both sides of the aisle. She addressed the full Senate on Tuesday. “I just...

NEW ORLEANS — The Municipal and Traffic Court of New Orleans will remain closed until further notice due to an ongoing power outage. Officials said the court's building was having a "power failure" around 8 a.m. Wednesday. The court will resume normal operations on Thursday, Apr. 25 depending on if power can be restored in the building.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH, La. — The St. John Sheriff’s Office says they are investigating after a man's body was found floating in the Mississippi River in Garyville. The Sheriff's office got a call Wednesday morning around 8:30 a.m. of a body floating in the river at that location.

NINE MILE POINT, La. — A Slidell man was killed in a one-car crash on the west bank of Jefferson Parish late Tuesday night, according to the sheriff's office. The crash occurred around 11:30 p.m. near Nine Mile Point Road and Seven Oaks Boulevard. According to the sheriff's office,...

JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — A Jefferson Parish judge sentenced a man to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detective in 2016. The district attorney's office says 27-year-old Jerman Neveaux pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in exchange for avoiding...

NEW ORLEANS — A new five-year schedule to lease federal offshore tracts for wind energy production was announced Wednesday by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, with up to a dozen lease sales anticipated beginning this year and continuing through 2028. Haaland announced the plan at a conference in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS — As transgender people in Louisiana watched surrounding states in the deeply conservative South implement a slew of laws targeting nearly every facet of their lives in recent years, they counted on their ally in the governor’s office to keep their home a relative oasis. Former...

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans-rooted Faubourg Brewing Company will hold a public “yard sale” and auction off all of the facility’s equipment as our partners at The Times-Picayune report. The auction is set for June and is another sign of the financial struggle Gayle Benson’s...

LAPLACE, La. — The eastbound Bonnet Carre Spillway heading into New Orleans reopened after a jackknifed 18-wheeler on the Spillway caused authorities to close it for several hours. This happened during the early morning commute hours. State Police had to divert traffic onto southbound I-55 at the Laplace exit...

NEW ORLEANS — A person was struck by a vehicle on I-10 and died early Wednesday morning the New Orleans Police Department said. The fatal hit-and-run crash on I-10 East prompted State Police to close the Slidell flyover exit on the Pontchartrain Expressway heading eastbound and the I-10 Poydras Street exit.

NEW ORLEANS — Monday afternoon, Michael and Earl Benjamin-Robinson were inside their home in Gentilly, going about their day as usual, with no idea what was taking place right on their doorstep. “I went downstairs, and they said we’ve just been robbed,” Benjamin-Robinson said. Chilling doorbell video...

ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La. — The tornado that ripped through St. Tammany Parish on April 10 has left dozens of people homeless and hundreds more in need of disaster assistance. Disasters remind us how much we need our neighbors. That's certainly the case with the April 10 storms that damaged or destroyed nearly 700 homes in St. Tammany Parish.

NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: Senator Heather Cloud says she will dial back some of her efforts to cast a dark shadow over Louisiana’s sunshine laws. On the Senate Floor Tuesday, she said amendments are in the works to narrow the scope of her controversial bill that would eviscerate access to public records in the state.

SLIDELL, La. — Tuesday, crews were working up and down Old Spanish Trail, cleaning up after the April 10 tornadoes that left a ten-mile path of debris scattered across Slidell and parts of unincorporated St. Tammany Parish. According to new estimates, nearly 700 homes and more than 50 businesses...

NEW ORLEANS — Under the setting sun in Algiers Monday evening, a video posted to social media shows a fight that turned deadly on Ptolemy Street, next to McDonough Playground. Twenty-seven seconds after the fight started you can hear what sounds like a gunshot. Brittany Ussin, 25, was shot....

NEW ORLEANS — A city council committee officially approved a set of settlement agreements with Entergy New Orleans that will provide some refunds to customers. That's the good news. The settlements total more than $250 million, plus there's a $500,000 fine that must be spent on reliability upgrades. Entergy...

COVINGTON, La. — St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office announced on Tuesday the seizure of approximately 780 fentanyl pills during the arrest of 24-year-old Derrick McDowell. McDowell is accused of dealing counterfeit pills suspected of containing fentanyl in the Covington area. According to the sheriff's office, STPSO's Narcotics Division conducted...

NEW ORLEANS — Customers in New Orleans could see a 10 to 25 percent increase in their utility bills with the Sewerage and Water Board upgrading its water meters, according to Nola.com. S&WB said the manual readers do not capture the total amount of water usage a customer uses.

PONCHATOULA, La. — Ponchatoula High School and Martha Vinyard Elementary are currently on lockdown while authorities from the Tangipahoa Sheriff's Office and Ponchatoula Volunteer Fire Department investigate a gun threat on Tuesday. According to the TPSO, deputies were alerted of the threat just before 11:30 a.m. after the school...