Nine years ago, the neighborhood where 77,000 people live, lost two health care facilities to flooding during Hurricane Katrina. The 215,000-square-foot New Orleans East Hospital is set to open June 26.
It’s the survival of the most adoptable. Overcrowded animal shelters in Louisiana become death row for unwanted dogs.
Louisiana Department of Education raises the bar, making more rigorous testing standards for students in grades three through eight.
Community members rally to defend a health-care safety net for New Orleans’ poor. The program, called the Greater New Orleans Community Health Connection, offers primary, behavioral and mental health coverage to more than 53,000 low-income residents across the city. That aid will end if the state doesn’t provide the program with $4 million by August.
Julius Moll, a seasoned shrimper, went out to sea with high hopes but low expectations. Shrimp supply in the first quarter of this year has been exceptionally low.
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana on Thursday criticized President Barack Obama’s education policies and his management of veterans’ affairs at the start of the three-day Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
Louisiana high school graduates are finding lucrative jobs in the Gulf Coast’s developing oil and gas industry.
A new Louisiana program aims to end the incarceration of street-based sex workers, targeting racial disparities in the criminal justice system while a new state bill pushes back.
After facing challenges like the devastating tropical storms, an economic depression and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, New Orleans tourism industry is not only back, but approaching record levels.
Louisiana has surpassed California and New York as the world’s movie production capital, with stars like Will Ferrell, Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Sofia Vergara filming in what has become “Hollywood South.”
Baton Rouge and New Orleans are in the top three United States cities with the highest rates of new H.I.V. and AIDS diagnoses. Residents attribute late testing to social stigma.
Louisiana will lose 1,750 square miles to the ocean over the next 50 years as sinking soils, rising sea levels and man-made developments continue eating away at the coast. The quickly eroding oceanside prompted state officials in 2012 to approve a $50 billion, 3,000-page master plan to restore and protect Louisiana’s coast.
Commercial fish farmers would be allowed to raise their stock in federal waters in an effort to reduce the nation’s dependence on seafood imports. Twenty new fisheries would be able to farm roughly $256 million worth of native fish species.
Rodents continue to affect residents and their properties, but New Orleans officials say comprehensive data of the health and population concerns will take nearly two years.
A woman was killed when her car flipped three times after being hit by a speeding truck on a residential street. Witnesses say it is part of a string of speeding incidents on their block.
The police said they are looking for a 12-year-old boy they described as armed and dangerous in the shooting of a 17-year-old. They are also investigating three deadly shootings that occurred this week.
Along the Louisiana coast, cemeteries, many containing the graves of American war veterans, some who fought in the War of 1812, could be lost as the coast continues to vanish.
A meteor shower made a less than dazzling debut near New Orleans early Saturday. People across the area couldn’t see much, despite hopes that the display might be spectacular enough to be seen even among the city’s bright lights.
Dr. Charles A. Preston, who was sworn in this week as coroner of St. Tammany Parish, is working to restore trust in an office that has been battered by scandal.
The National Hurricane Center will start publishing online maps with real-time storm surge data showing expected flood levels. Public awareness of possible storm surges was a goal of the Center’s annual Hurricane Awareness Tour. The tour included an inside look at “The Hurricane Hunter.”
The N.F.L.’s announcement that Minneapolis will host the 2018 Super Bowl may be reinforcing a trend of rewarding the title of host to cities with new stadiums.
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute in New Orleans for 2014 is now concluded. We will resume in May 2015 in Tucson, Arizona.
Julia Craven went to Tulane University looking for a controversy. What she found was a young custodial worker with a phenomenal story.
The National Weather Service of New Orleans/Baton Rouge issued a flash flood watch Wednesday afternoon remaining into effect through Thursday evening.