Known as a thriving hub for art, culture and cuisine, New Orleans has also faced its share of challenges — and survived.

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

Nine inmates - some of them charged with murder - escaped a jail in New Orleans and remain on the loose as authorities investigate whether any guards were in on the jailbreak plot. A total of 10 ...

NEW ORLEANS — For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in ...

Leo Tate faced burglary and weapons possession charges. Mugshots of the 10 violent criminals who broke out of the New Orleans prison. Earlier reports misidentified Keith Lewis as an escapee before ...

UP HOPEFULLY DURING THIS NEWSCAST. ALSO, SOME NEW DETAILS ON THE FORMER NEW ORLEANS POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED THREE PEOPLE BACK IN THE 90S DURING A SHOCKING CRIME. THIS IS ANTOINETTE. FRANK IS ...

Featured pricing is subject to change. The New Orleans Saints are trying something new in 2025. After a lost 5-12 season and starting quarterback Derek Carr now retired due to injury, new head ...

Six inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet. The group was captured on surveillance footage fleeing Orleans Parish Prison around ...

Hundreds of local, state and federal authorities are scrambling to find seven inmates who bolted out of a New Orleans jail Friday, sprinted across an interstate and vanished. As of Monday morning ...

Gabe Whisnant is a Breaking News Editor at Newsweek based in North Carolina. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, he directed daily publications in North and South Carolina. As an executive editor ...

New Orleans Councilman Joe Giarrusso tells WDSU, concerns about locks were not brought up to the New Orleans City Council. "We got an email from the sheriff's office, now a month ago,---they ...