The city was seeing glimmers of optimism for what the new year might bring before the horrendous attack on the French Quarter ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pursuing a plan to replace the 100-year-old lock that connects the Mississippi River to ...

The Hoffman Triangle in Central City takes its name from the John W. Hoffman school, which was a landmark in the area for ...

Passenger rail’s return, big changes on the sports scene and a significant storm anniversary will be among the biggest South ...

Hurricanes are nature’s most destructive forces, leaving devastation in their wake. Today, we’re counting down the top 5 ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

Less than 36 hours after Wednesday’s attack and before we knew the names of all of the victims, New Orleans reopened Bourbon ...

The University of New Orleans sign sits in front of the University ... Its student numbers have struggled to recover since the failure of federal levees after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The school had ...

NEW ORLEANS - Facing a $10 million budget shortfall, the University of New Orleans has picked two new interim deans who will ...

A trial that could affect thousands of New Orleans residents whose homes were flooded after Hurricane Katrina began Monday at the New Orleans ... and a natural disaster destroyed the levees.”The ...

St. Paul’s is located in New Orleans’s Lakeview neighborhood less than two miles south of Lake Pontchartrain. In August 2005, during Hurricane Katrina, lake water from the 17th Street Canal breached a ...