New Orleans City Council

Top officials in the Mayor LaToya Cantrell administration faced scrutiny from New Orleans City Council members Monday over the relocation of residents living on top of a hazardous waste site known as Gordon Plaza.

New Orleans’ crime surge has been felt by most residents, including the city’s high school students, who told the City Council earlier this week they felt the government had failed them.

New Orleans’ City Council unanimously approved $4.6 million in funding for three public school programs for at-risk students at its meeting Thursday after the funds were withheld from the district by the previous Council, resulting in a public plea from school leaders.

New Orleans diners will have to go off-menu if they want to order soft drinks with kids’ meals, according to an ordinance pitched by the city health department and passed unanimously by the New Orleans City Council Thursday. The measure goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023.

A measure to give employees of certain municipal offices the authority to ticket residents and companies that violate "quality of life" ordinances in New Orleans is moving closer to its final vote.

Residents of Gordon Plaza will continue their decades-long fight for relocation from their homes that sit on top of a former landfill known to cause cancer after city officials moved forward with a plan to assess the site rather than fund the residents’ move.

New Orleans voters will find themselves inside a voting booth for the second month in a row this December, with two millages and six runoff races to decide on.The quick turnaround from the Nov. 13 election coupled with the holiday season could produce some upsets that would potentially reshape the City Council or even give the city its first female sheriff.

New Orleans-born actor Anthony Mackie is trying to raise his Esplanade Avenue home to avoid floodwaters and give his family more room, he said in a letter to the City Council on Thursday.

After delaying budget talks with the City Council for several days, the Sheriff of Orleans Parish presented his office's budget proposal for the 2022 budget, coming in at $4.2 million more than Mayor LaToya Cantrell allotted for the office.

The hotly-contested At-Large Division II race was almost projected to be a runoff between former State Rep. JP Morrell and City Council member Kristin Gisleson Palmer until the very end, when all precincts were reporting and Morrell inched his way to the needed 51% of the vote.