Malaco Records, founded in 1962 in Jackson, Miss., needed a hit. Previous recordings had not gained any traction, and money ...

Alexander Dimitry was a man of firsts. He was Louisiana’s first state superintendent of education, the first person of color ...

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and ...

This Saturday (July 5), the Ashé Cultural Arts Center will lead a procession in remembrance of the horrors of the slave trade ...

A new law gives economic development officials more power to change the state’s film tax credit program. A law enacting new ...

Hundreds of people from one of the country’s largest labor unions amassed in New Orleans on Tuesday (July 1) afternoon to ...

As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, ...

Tulane University is no longer pursuing disciplinary action against seven students who were originally facing consequences ...

Louisiana Sen. Michael Fesi, who introduced Louisiana’s legislation to redefine wetlands, thinks easing wetlands regulation ...

Part of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, these satellites provide hurricane forecasters with real-time imagery ...

A New Orleans woman is being held in an immigration detention center in Basile, Louisiana after getting arrested at her ...

The Department of Defense is abruptly shutting down a satellite program that meteorologists say is crucial to hurricane ...