New Orleans

The two sides have agreed to a 62% wage increase over 6 years in a deal between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance. The union had been seeking a 77% increase.

The City of New Orleans and the Department of Justice asked a judge to move toward ending consent decree after years of federal oversight.

Many departments will see cuts, though employees will receive 2.5% raises.

Plans to build a football stadium in the 9th Ward are moving forward again, after a nearly decade-long delay.

Autumn has finally arrived, and the excitement for fall festivals in New Orleans is just beginning. From Oktoberfests to Caribbean Carnivals and other events honoring the city’s diverse communities, there will be plenty of ways to enjoy fall in and around New Orleans.

Hundreds of Louisiana longshoremen and maintenance workers walked off the job on Tuesday, shutting down the state’s two biggest shipping ports for everyday products from plastics to coffee.

The fleet has dwindled over the past few years, but leaders say change is on the horizon.

A proposed TopGolf site, an abandoned hospital and New Orleans’ tree canopy have been named to an annual list of the city’s most endangered sites.

Ernest J. Wright, a civil rights trailblazer in New Orleans, was the city’s first Black social worker.

The ceremony was one part of a two-day stretch of events marking Morial’s life. On Sunday, the community was invited to a public visitation. Monday’s ceremony was followed up with a traditional second line and private family mass and burial.