Mid‑90s highs and stifling humidity will keep the Big Easy under heat stress into next week. Check NOLA Ready cooling centers and avoid midday exertion.

Venture Global will hold three open houses in Plaquemines Parish July 28–30 to outline the proposed LNG expansion and its timeline.

A person was detained at the FBI's New Orleans lakefront office after arriving with a suspicious object; agents made the item safe and turned the case over to NOPD.

Gayle Benson bought three St. Charles Avenue properties near Harmony Circle, adding a vacant office, a former music bar and a corner lot to her downtown holdings.

City Council is weighing a major rewrite of the carnival code that would require harnesses on floats, cap throws and raise fines for early 'ladder camps'.

New Orleans police are seeking Kim White in an aggravated assault near North Claiborne and Iberville. Officials say First District detectives and Crimestoppers are taking tips.

A three-boat collision on the Amite River near Prairieville sent four people to hospitals and prompted an LDWF probe; river users warn to remain vigilant.

Dat Dog has closed its original Freret Street location for a $508,000 renovation that preserves the site’s historic gas‑station canopy and aims to reopen by end of summer.

A Tickfaw man died after a late‑night crash on I‑55; state troopers say the driver was arrested on vehicular homicide and related charges.

A 16-year-old died and several others were injured when a pickup overturned on Hunt Road near Dewey W. Wills WMA; the driver faces vehicular homicide charges.

A 12‑year‑old in Mid‑City was struck by an SUV and left on the road; investigators are asking for video and tips as the child recovers from a broken jaw.

ASAP told Mayor Helena Moreno it will stop new enrollments and withdraw from New Orleans' monitoring program by Aug. 1, saying court practices have made the program unsustainable.

Nunez won $4M in state funds and is raising $9M for an aerospace building in Chalmette to expand maritime, aerospace, defense and energy training.