About 53,000 'able-bodied' SNAP recipients will have to lean on their local food banks as long as the shutdown persists, ...

Aimee McCarron and Holly Friedman, two former staffers of outgoing City Councilmember Joe Giarrusso, will compete in a Nov. 15 runoff.

Facing a $160 million deficit and an immediate cash-flow shortage, city leaders are now considering cuts. ‘Everything is on ...

Leah Chase, the only public school in New Orleans run by the school district, has a lower-than-expected student retention ...

Tulane University students gathered across from Stern Hall last Friday (Oct. 24) to denounce a recent  decision to relocate ...

Along with Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells, Harper co-founded the National Association of Colored Women ...

A little-known state committee will meet Wednesday to determine whether the financially troubled city meets legal criteria ...

SNAP funding runs out at the end of October, and states are considering legal action and emergency funding to try to make up ...

FCC voted to set six-cent per minute caps on phone calls from prisons and jails. The rule never fully took effect. After ...

The federal civil rights suit was based on footage from in-classroom cameras, which will soon be required in special ...

State Rep. Julie Emerson of Carencro announced Monday she will challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, adding an ...

A Cantrell administration official says that FEMA has not delivered expected funding because of New Orleans’ status as a ...