"This is transformative," Mayor-Elect Helena Moreno said in a statement, according to NOLA.com. By installing solar-connected ...

Starting on Monday next week, Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve will temporarily close the Barataria Preserve visitor center and most boardwalk trails for a multi-phase demolition and ...

New Orleans churches and community centers are being outfitted with backup and solar power to create a microgrid for ...

The Texas firm bought the portfolio of 1500 units -- one third of all multifamily units in New Orleans East - for $26 million ...

Jazz icon Louis Armstrong spent much of his childhood with the Karnofsky family, Lithuanian Jews who even bought him his ...

Nolan discusses the journey of writing her debut novel, how her journalism informs her fiction and more with the Gulf States ...

After spending seven years trying to create a cultural hub on a venerable New Orleans block, a developer is offloading three of the block’s four landmark buildings that mark the beginnings of jazz ...

A new City Council is already getting to work in New Orleans following Monday’s swearing-in ceremony and inaugural meeting.

Around the area this weekend, concerts by Patti LuPone and Atmosphere, comedy by Kathleen Madigan and Kevin Nealon and ...

From festive highs like Mardi Gras to quieter, budget-friendly seasons, we break down the best time to visit New Orleans by balancing weather, crowds, costs and the city’s nonstop calendar of culture ...

According to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the state was the 7th-slowest growing in the country, continuing a ...

In 1843, Congress gave Samuel Morse $30,000 to try to send a telegram from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. Rather than bury ...