For nearly a year, New Orleans tried giving $350 a month to a group of young people, part of a privately funded experimental program to see if a universal basic income would make a significant ...

Rain from Hurricane Francine has been pounding the New Orleans metro, causing widespread street flooding in many neighborhoods and the city and in Jefferson Parish. Francine's eyewall fell apart ...

Power has been restored to thousands of New Orleans residents Tuesday night following a large outage a day before Hurricane Francine's forecasted landfall. Entergy's outage map showed a large area ...

Here's the latest: All NOLA Public Schools and central office will remain closed on Thursday. New Orleans Maritime and Military Academy will be closed on Thursday. The following Archdiocese of ...

The New Orleans area braced to ride out Hurricane Francine on Tuesday as the storm shifted to the east and threatened to bring powerful winds, flooding and tornadoes, while mandatory evacuations ...

New Orleans City Council member Joe Giarrusso. The new rules mark the most significant legislation New Orleans has adopted in years to address an intractable problem of the city snubbing people ...

Francine packed maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph) after the eye of the storm traveled inland over southern Louisiana and was about 50 miles (80 km) west-southwest of New Orleans ...

It’s been a long, slow summer in New Orleans, but there’s still been a lot happening in the local restaurant scene. That’s why I’m using this edition of my regular where-to-eat-now column ...

10. Notably, as it approached the coast, Francine's eyewall appeared to expand, based on satellite imagery of the storm, which meant that a broader segment of the New Orleans metro area ended up ...

Tropical Storm Francine's track forecast shifted east Tuesday morning, putting New Orleans uncomfortably close to the center of the storm. As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, Francine was expected to hit ...

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch in portions of southeast Louisiana Friday morning, including New Orleans, as residents brace for more showers and thunderstorms through the weekend.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officials with the City of New Orleans offered an update on Hurricane Francine during a Wednesday press conference. A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning have been ...