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On Thursday, a handful of environmental groups notified the EPA of its intent to sue the agency over its failure to perform duties required by the Clean Water Act.

The city of New Orleans has hired Peter Bowen, the former general manager of major short-term rental operator Sonder, as the city’s new deputy chief…

Attorneys for Darnley Hodge, the appointed compliance director who oversees the New Orleans jail, on Wednesday filed a lengthy opposition to a request by…

Despite a local law requiring the city of New Orleans to post all of its contracts on its website, the city’s public-facing contract database hasn’t…

Members of the New Orleans City Council on Thursday initiated the process to renew a quarter-percent sales tax in the French Quarter that has funded…

For months prior to the city government’s announcement that it no longer intended to move forward with Phase III of the New Orleans jail — a proposed…

Safety first. That was the focal point of a Wednesday night virtual town hall where more than 300 educators, parents and community members discussed…

The Louisiana Department of Education and the NOLA Public Schools district are ready to be released from a five-year-old federal consent judgment that…

A week after the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office announced that there were no known cases of coronavirus at the New Orleans jail, a man being held at the…

A little after 10 a.m. Monday morning, the First City Court of New Orleans granted an eviction order for the first time in over three months. First City…