A kitchen fire forced 135 residents out of a downtown New Orleans high-rise apartment due to significant water damage.

NOFD officials said 135 residents were evacuated from the building as a precaution for crews to secure the scene and begin mitigation efforts. A total of 18 NOFD units carrying 45 fire officials were ...

Firefighters say someone left a late night meal on the stove and walked away, sparking a fire in the Richards Building in the ...

Central Business District overnight Thursday during a two-alarm fire, according to the New Orleans Fire Department.  A ...

Fire crews responded around 12:34 a.m. to a 14-story residential building at 837 Gravier Street, where a kitchen fire broke ...

The New Orleans Fire Department says 135 people were safely evacuated from a New Orleans high-rise after a fire sparked early Thursday morning. The fire department says they were called to the ...

We are all of that, but we are tired of hearing it. Black New Orleans withstood the battle. But we are still undergoing the war. Photographed by Edward Buckles Jr. Styled by Megan Coates New ...

A total of 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center after climbing through a hole behind a toilet in the early morning hours of May 16. Eight inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Fire Department is investigating an overnight fire in New Orleans East. NOFD officials reported being alerted of a fire in the 25000 block Chef Menteur ...

Former New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Ronal Serpas is criticizing what he described as New Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson's "checkered past" after 10 inmates escaped a parish ...

A team of over 200 local, state and federal law enforcement officers and agents is working around the clock to capture the remaining missing inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a ...

Philadelphia can lay a valid claim to helping shape his intellectual formation. But New Orleans may have an even greater claim – it helped shape his roots, and they are decidedly African American.