The Louisiana-themed park at Laketown will feature a trawl boat and fishing camp for kids of all abilities.

Kermit Ruffins, DJ Soul Sister and Harry Shearer headline a September 12 benefit as the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard venue races to finish its comeback.

New Orleans faces a 93-degree Wednesday with a chance of afternoon storms, followed by a hotter and mostly dry stretch into next week.

Officers wrote 117 tickets in one West Bank school zone alone as traffic deaths keep falling in New Orleans.

Shion Scott is the second Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office employee arrested in less than two weeks amid a widening internal crackdown.

State auditors found 733 trucks dodged open Louisiana weigh stations in one field study, with nearly $2 million in old penalties still uncollected.

The victim refused to hand over his phone and wallet, then fled bleeding to a nearby St. Claude Avenue business for help.

A 16-year-old was hospitalized after a shooting in the 6300 block of Morrison Road early Tuesday. Police have not released his condition.

Drivers face hours-long detours over the Belle Rose and Palo Alto bridges after a deadly wreck closed the narrow bayou highway.

Millennium Place will rent to nurses, teachers and cops at $300 to $400 below typical Lower Garden District rates.

A gunshot wound to the leg sent one man to the hospital before deputies tracked down a suspect by Monday afternoon.

An October chili cook-off in Old Arabi funds the sheriff's office holiday deliveries to parish families in need.

Cheryl Squire, 59, was shot on her own porch after opening her Broadmoor home to Mark Pohlen. He now faces mandatory life without parole.