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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

If you are interested in knowing more about the Kouri-Vini, the Louisiana language of the people that rose from the French, indigenous, African, Spanish, and others, you should check out the videos of ...

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

In the post-Civil War South, the federal government worked to protect newly freed citizens and immigrants by establishing ...