New Orleans

So I’m sitting outside at my bar at the house and I started to reflect on some of the great experiences that I’ve had in my life. One of those experiences was my trip to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after Katrina hit...

So I’m sitting outside at my bar at the house and I started to reflect on some of the great experiences that I’ve had in my life. One of those experiences was my trip to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after Katrina hit...

Cleanup is underway after a tornado and high winds caused damage in several New Orleans neighborhoods.

It's been a long time coming: National retailers are open again in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood that was drowned more than 10 years ago when catastrophic floodwaters crashed in and smashed homes after inadequate floodwalls and levees burst during Hurricane Katrina.

The producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been constantly looking at the sky and closely monitoring weather forecasts as Friday's start of one of the city's largest outdoor events looms.

Newly released surveillance video shows what may have precipitated the shooting death of Saints defensive end Will Smith: Moments earlier, what appears to be his Mercedes SUV can be seen bumping the rear of a Hummer that stopped on a busy street.

Award-winning photographer, filmmaker and musician, Danny Clinch joined Big Joe Henry live from the Asbury Park Music in Film Festival to talk about his new film, "Louisiana Fairytale."

Friends and family of a Louisiana sheriff's deputy critically wounded in New Orleans while serving a warrant were praying for him as well-wishers rushed to give blood to help in his recovery.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- City Council members who led the push to ban smoking in bars and gambling venues in this notoriously libertine city hailed the start of the smoke-free ordinance Wednesday as a historic step in making the city healthier.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering and other corruption that spanned his two terms as mayor - including the chaotic years after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.