The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into the alleged beating of two citizens by New Orleans Police ... near the corner of Race and Religious streets.

You better believe it! For a short time in the early 1990s, New Orleans was home to a large street race. The Grand Prix du Mardi Gras was held in the heart of New Orleans in 1991, 1992 and 1995.

The series has never raced in New Orleans. The city last hosted a significant auto racing event in 1995, when the now-defunct IMSA GT Championship series held a GTS-2 race on a street circuit ...

Indeed, riverfront dynamics gave rise to Front Street. “Front,” you may have noticed, is not a French, Spanish or indigenous name, indicating it was coined during New Orleans’ American ...

New Orleans once locked up more of its residents than any other city in the country. But in recent years, religious leaders and the business community, along with advocates for racial justice ...

Some diehard defenders of the Confederacy are swearing that they’ll never spend another nickel in New Orleans. No more Mardi Gras for these rebels. Bourbon Street will have to party on without them.

The New Year's Day ... bollards from Canal Street to St. Ann Street. Work began in November 2024 and was scheduled to continue to February 2025, according to the New Orleans Department of Public ...

Authorities say the driver drove around a barricade and plowed through a crowd along Bourbon Street, the city's iconic stretch of bars and hotels. New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick says ...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin discusses racial tensions in the city post-Katrina after Latino workers flocked to the city for the cleanup and rebuilding process. He says he expects New Orleans to ...