An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes if voters approve ...

Founded on June 21, 1956, the New Orleans Improvement League’s goal was “to promote the economic, political, civic and social ...

New Orleans is part of a growing list of cities hamstrung by state legislatures hostile to gun regulation. Local police and ...

Attorneys representing nearly 300 people in immigration detention claim ICE is illegally targeting people from post-Soviet ...

Nurses at University Medical Center began their two-day strike ahead the Super Bowl this Wednesday (Feb. 5) by picketing ...

After the cutters went on strike in 1887, the state militia and white vigilantes retaliated by killing about 60 suspected ...

The records reveal New Orleans Saints executives played a more extensive role than previously known in a PR campaign to ...

Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. Despite President Donald ...

Health Department programs help new mothers and infants, provide health care for homeless people and interrupt gun violence.

A jury reached a verdict Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 29) on a First Amendment case filed by environmental justice activist Joy ...

The First Amendment issue arose from a long-running dispute over a now-abandoned grain terminal project in the parish.

When Amy Stelly was growing up, she celebrated the holidays with her whole extended family. Her Aunt Carol hosted ...