New Orleans City Council

New Orleans is set to join a growing list of cities across the country that offer municipal identification cards to residents.

The issue came up during the council’s budget hearings on Monday (Oct. 28) after New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick confirmed that her agency does not have a written agreement with the Louisiana State Police.

The attorney of the woman trying to open the museum told Verite News that they will appeal the council’s decision in court.

Lawmakers passed a law designed to limit reproductive rights in Louisiana. But it may also limit patients’ chances of surviving common life events like miscarriages and births.

Louisiana’s largest health system has sent guidance to some staff on the state’s new anti-abortion law that reclassifies two common pregnancy medications as controlled dangerous substances.

New Orleans City Council members plan to investigate the impacts of a new Louisiana law that will restrict common pregnancy medications that can also induce abortions.

Following a first-of-its-kind confirmation process, New Orleans City Council voted Thursday to confirm Mayor LaToya Cantrell's pick to lead the city's police department.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s pick for police chief could be confirmed Thursday after a city council committee voted 4-1 to advance her nominee to a full vote.

The measure, passed on Thursday (April 6), means that all existing residential permits will sunset at the end of August – regardless of the expiration date stated on the permit.

Community advocates called on the City Council to spend some of the millions of dollars in federal pandemic aid sitting in city coffers on affordable housing and youth development programs, which are aimed at easing the structural problems at the root of the city’s struggle with violence and crime.