COVID-19

The city-funded right to counsel program ensures anyone facing eviction can get access to legal representation.

The NAACP’s and SPLC’s federal complaint claims that Mississippi didn’t equitably spend its federal COVID-19 relief funds, leaving out communities of color.

Amid an uptick in cases, city officials strongly recommended a return to indoor masking and provided updates on virus precautions and treatments to buffer against a summer surge.

The transit agency lifted its mask mandate after a federal judge voided a nationwide mask mandate for public transportation on Monday.

The announcements come after a federal judge voided a nationwide mask mandate for public transportation on Monday.

Owners of restaurants, bars, gyms and movie theaters across New Orleans breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday after the Mayor LaToya Cantrell administration lifted its vaccine mandate.

While some in health care agree that lifting New Orleans' vaccine mandate was the correct move to make considering current COVID trends, others think it could be too soon.

The New Orleans COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which required patrons of certain businesses to provide proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test, was lifted Monday morning, according to a press release from city officials.

New Orleans’ public schools will no longer report COVID-19 cases to the district’s central office, though state reporting will continue, officials said Monday.

On the two-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, take a look back at the Gulf States Newsroom’s coverage of the infectious disease’s impact on the Gulf South region.