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Prisons, jails, and youth detention centers across Louisiana are seeing an increase in ‘unnatural’ deaths caused by drug overdoses, suicide, and violence.
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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.
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Health officials say now is not the time to let your guard down on protecting yourself, and others, as the three contagious viruses spread across the region.
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If you’ve wracked up late fees on parking tickets, library books, or water bills, a returning city program could temporarily help pay them off.
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The city-funded right to counsel program ensures anyone facing eviction can get access to legal representation.
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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.
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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.
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The transit agency lifted its mask mandate after a federal judge voided a nationwide mask mandate for public transportation on Monday.
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The announcements come after a federal judge voided a nationwide mask mandate for public transportation on Monday.
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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.