Katelyn Umholtz
Digital EditorKatelyn Umholtz is the digital editor for WWNO and WRKF and is based out of New Orleans.
Before joining the team, Katelyn was a digital producer/editor and breaking news reporter at the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate for two years. In that time, she covered the Hard Rock Hotel collapse, for which she and a team of reporters earned a Green Eyeshade Award for disaster reporting, the COVID-19 pandemic, Mardi Gras and multiple hurricanes. She was an education reporter for the Valdosta Daily Times in Valdosta, Georgia, before moving to New Orleans.
Katelyn is from Hinesville, Georgia, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Georgia. She loves all things pop culture, trying new restaurants in New Orleans and spoiling her two cats, Boo and Cooper.
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Louisiana’s so-called “trigger laws” that criminalized abortion procedures and shuttered the state’s clinics immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade were blocked by a state judge on Monday. -
Cedric Richmond, a former U.S. congressman who left his post representing New Orleans to join President Joe Biden’s administration, is leaving the White House after only 15 months in his role, according to reports Monday. -
State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, who has been an elected official in the state legislature since 1999, announced her resignation from her political position on Friday due to depression and a gambling addiction, according to a statement from Peterson. -
The first few days of Spring are here, and already forecasters are warning of severe storms headed toward southeastern Louisiana. -
The COVID emergency proclamation, which has been in effect for exactly two years since the pandemic reached Louisiana in March 2020, will not be renewed when it expires Wednesday, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Monday. -
It's been three years since the last New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival took place in the New Orleans Fair Grounds due to the coronavirus pandemic canceling two years of festival activities. But event organizers said it's coming back in 2022. -
Louisiana reached a pandemic milestone on Tuesday, with the state health department reporting more than 1 million positive COVID-19 cases.
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The state health department reported 17,592 new cases of COVID-19, the highest daily report of new cases, on Wednesday, breaking Friday’s record of 14,802 cases. -
Also, film producer Gregory Kallenberg on his prize program for the state’s independent filmmakers. -
Hurricane Ida recovery efforts are moving slowly, particularly when it comes to housing, after a vote for disaster aid and the debt ceiling failed this week and resulted in a Congressional spat.
