New Orleans Metro News

On this 4th of July holiday, The National World War II Museum in New Orleans has created programs to accent the meaning of the American Spirit.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal vetoed another pay raise bill Thursday, which would have given the five elected members of the Public Service Commission a $30,000 annual increase in their salaries.

The organization that accredits Dillard University has scolded the New Orleans school for the way it has managed its money.

Louisiana authorities say three people are being treated for burns after a steam accident at a ConocoPhillips Co.

A former New Orleans city official is challenging his nine-year prison sentence stemming from a scheme to skim money from a City Hall contract.

Now that the Legislature has approved Gov. Bobby Jindal's $10 million "scholarship" program for about 150 New Orleans students from low-performing schools to attend private and parochial schools, the state ...

NEW ORLEANS - To ensure the Army Corps of Engineers stays on track to build levees, Louisiana will need to come up with $1.8 billion in the next three years - a staggering sum for an impoverished state.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal says he realizes he "made a mistake" promising not to veto a pay raise that more than doubled legislator salaries.

Curator Ted Haig shows part of the antique liquor collection at The Museum of the American Cocktail in New Orleans.

The City of New Orleans Department of Public Works is breaking ground today to commemorate the start of the 7th roadway project in New Orleans East since Hurricane Katrina.

The new secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says he will do his utmost to make sure the redevelopment of several public housing complexes in New Orleans stays on track.

Authorities say six people who died when a fire gutted a mobile home in central Louisiana were apparently trapped between flames and a door that was nailed shut.

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office was involved in a high speed chase Wednesday afternoon that stretched for miles, crossing over the Crescent City Connection before ending in two arrests.

Two members of Louisiana's Board of Ethics resigned today, the latest in a wave of departures that has stripped the board of the membership it needs to enforce the state's ethics code and bring charges against ...

The Louisiana Secretary of State's Elections Division says it has received a recall petition for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

The New Orleans City Council is pledging its support for a public-private partnership to retain and recruit businesses to the city.

Washington, June 26: Of the many inmates on death row, there are only a few who actually get to see the execution chamber.

New Orleans Police today are investigating the shooting of four people, resulting in two murders.

NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana's job picture remained bright in May, with an unemployment rate well below the national average and 25,400 more nonfarm jobs than it had a year earlier, a report released Wednesday ...

New Orleans city attorneys are investigating whether the company that won the lucrative crime camera contract lied about its qualifications.