Metairie News

' Construction at Holy Cross School's new location on Paris Avenue in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans is on schedule to wrap up next summer, school officials say.

The Pontchartrain Hotel has been under renovation for a year but the 81-year-old building will not open for room reservations when work is complete.

Around 50 elderly and frail residents were rescued last night after a Metairie nursing caught fire, according to a Jefferson Parish fire official.

A fugitive in the March 1 kidnapping and murder of Terrence Pinkley has been arrested in Houston, authorities said today.

A woman from suburban New Orleans has filed a recall petition against state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell.

A Covington man was arrested for burglary after Jefferson Sheriff's Office deputies allegedly caught him inside of a closed Metairie restaurant Sunday morning.

With a 3.1 grade point average at East Jefferson High School in Metairie, Ashley Lee has no doubt that she will go to college.

While thirty-six unopposed Jefferson Parish candidates won automatic election today, a few seats up for election in the fall ballooned with contenders.

The first phase of a beautification project for Veterans Memorial Boulevard at Club Drive and at Bonnabel Boulevard is complete.

A 36-year-old Metairie man was killed Wednesday night following a traffic crash in the 4800 block of Power Boulevard, Kenner.

One-stop shopping for iPods, MacBooks and all things Apple could be available in the New Orleans area soon.

A 36-year-old Metairie man was killed around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night when his motorcycle collided with a car on Power Boulevard in Kenner, according to the Kenner Police Department.

Disasters always seem to be unpredictable. That maxim held true Wednesday as emergency corps got a late start in Jefferson Parish to a daylong hurricane evacuation drill that some politicians dubbed the largest ...

Renny Martyn, a 53-year-old married beauty salon owner from Metairie, is one of the 13 "house guests" on the upcoming new season of the CBS reality-TV series "Big Brother." The show's 10th season debuts at 7 ...

A New Orleans man won a little over of $1 million in a Lotto jackpot. Charles Canada, 39, purchased the winning ticket at the Cleary Shell on Cleary Avenue in Metairie.

The owner of a Metairie house where bones were found in a bed says the skeleton was his father's. 58-year-old Lon Adams says his father, 81-year-old Leroy Adams, died of natural causes, possibly Alzheimer's ...

Residents in a Metairie neighborhood got a scare late last night when a car drove into a gas meter, resulting in a small explosion that set the vehicle on fire, according to the Jefferson Parish Fire ...

The body of a Metairie man who reportedly went swimming Saturday in the Intracoastal Canal in eastern New Orleans was pulled Sunday evening from Lake Catherine by an agent with the state Department of Wildlife ...

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrested the boyfriend of a woman stabbed to death in Metairie early Thursday morning after detectives poked holes through his initial story that she had been killed during ...

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation reports that no one won the major jackpots in the multistate Powerball, but a ticket sold in Metairie won Saturday's more than $1 million jackpot in the Louisiana Lotto.