New Orleans

New Orleans’ annual Carnival season entered its ebullient crescendo Tuesday with thousands of revelers gathering in the French Quarter and lining miles of parade routes in a citywide Mardi Gras celebration underpinned this year by violent crime concerns and political turmoil.

The lead up to New Orleans’ annual Mardi Gras celebration intensifies Friday with events big and small.

A New Orleans man stopped a would-be car thief on Christmas Day in an altercation caught on a security camera.

A major storm system that included tornado activity killed three in Louisiana on Wednesday. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards has the latest.

Three men imprisoned since the 1990s for a fatal New Orleans drive-by shooting have been ordered freed and their convictions vacated. Prosecutors joined defense lawyers in seeking to have their convictions tossed out by a judge.

The Great Migration brought African American food traditions to Chicago, but cajun and creole dishes from New Orleans have been harder to find. According to NBC 5’s Food Guy Steve Dolinsky, there’s a new restaurant in Hyde Park focusing on a few dishes from the Big Easy. Heaven on Seven in the Loop was a pioneer in Chicago, but...

A ground worker at New Orleans’ airport died in an accident Tuesday when her hair became entangled in machinery while she was offloading an aircraft, officials said. Jermani Thompson was servicing a Frontier Airlines flight around 10 p.m. when the accident happened, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said. Thompson, 26, an employee of GAT Airline Ground Support, was rushed…

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the 28th Essence Festival in New Orleans about issues facing Black women.

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press. More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have…

An elderly woman was killed and two males wounded when an argument between two females erupted into gunfire Tuesday at a university campus after a high school graduation there, New Orleans police said. The males received wounds that were not life-threatening — one hit in a shoulder, the other in a leg, authorities told news outlets. Police did not give…

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for three children who went missing in the Mississippi River near New Orleans’ Crescent City Connection bridge Saturday

Severe storms and a possible tornado damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after severe storms struck the New Orleans area.

A New Orleans attorney says a 21-year-old man accused of killing a high school student and the teen’s stepsister was gunned down on his way to a pretrial hearing.

During Carnival season, flocks of marching bands parade through the city streets even though jazz music and dancing has been banned in New Orleans public schools for almost a century.

Survey teams found damage consistent with an EF-3 tornado and a path around 11 miles long, the National Weather Service said.

Other tornadoes spawned by the same system caused so much damage in Texas that the governor declared a disaster in 16 counties.

WDSU’s tower cam recorded video of the tornado that struck New Orleans last night.

A witness said all the men in the New Orleans suburb neighborhood ran into the wreckage of the house to find the girl.

The string of storms that spawned tornadoes in Texas on Monday moved east, causing a tornado to touch down in New Orleans.