Louisiana’s debit-card surcharge ban took effect Saturday, giving shoppers new protections and retailers a new checkout rule to follow.

Louisiana’s new WIC cards launch Saturday, promising remote benefit reloads after a state audit exposed major access problems.

NOFD is leaving its century-old French Quarter headquarters for a modern City Park Avenue facility. Engine 29 will stay behind, while administrative operations move next week.

New Orleans renters have a city-backed way to report overheated bedrooms, broken AC and other unsafe housing conditions.

Tulane public policy students told a City Council committee they want the city to raise municipal pay by nearly $3 an hour and add a housing allowance as part of a public‑safety approach.

Tommy Williams was sworn in July 1 as Slidell’s police chief and will oversee a planned $17.6 million headquarters while pledging open-door leadership.

City leaders are weighing the first permit fee hike for Mardi Gras in decades to help cover rising safety and cleanup costs.

The State Board has tapped Monty Sullivan, a Louisiana higher-education veteran, as acting head of North Carolina's 58-college system while the legislature weighs confirmation.

NOPD floated a plan to move several Uptown parade kickoffs and shift two starting points ahead of Carnival 2027. The changes would need City Council approval.

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'.

An Orleans judge dismissed Bill Hammack's defamation suit against Sen. Royce Duplessis, saying Hammack failed to show likely success and ordering him to pay fees.

Interim Slidell police chief Daniel Seuzeneau has launched a bid for St. Tammany Parish sheriff, stepping into a race opened by Randy Smith’s resignation.

The Fifth Circuit voted Monday to rehear United States v. Squire en banc, vacating a June panel opinion and raising fresh questions about 18 U.S.C. §922(g).