The city will hold a week of tributes, workshops, and community service events to remember the tragedy and celebrate its ...

Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, is one of the deadliest and most destructive storms in U.S. history. New Orleans, the Mississippi River city near the Gulf of ...

Governor Jeff Landry is demanding answers after criminal court case files from Orleans Parish were found dumped in a landfill.In a letter to Louisiana State Police (LSP) Superintendent Col. Robert ...

Back in June, I penned an article here on The Hayride that shared my thoughts about the upcoming New Orleans mayoral election ...

The city council voted unanimously to overrule the mayor's veto of an ordinance that would adjust the responsibilities of the ...

The New Orleans City Council on Thursday unanimously defeated Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of a measure that proposed a ...

The New Orleans City Council Aug. 7 overrode Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of a plan to allow voters to weigh in on a change barring the city attorney from representing either the mayor or council in ...

Councilwoman Helena Moreno speaks during a mayoral forum Tuesday evening alongside State Sen. Royce Duplessis, retired Judge ...

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to ...

So far, about 60 cases of court files have been recovered from the landfill and are being returned to the Public Works site; however, the total amount dumped is unknown. Lombard believes there are ...