On Oct. 31, 1963, Castle and other peaceful protesters sat down at the segregated John Lynne Cafeteria in the New Orleans City Hall basement and requested service.

The recycling expansion was fully funded at no additional cost to the city. But it could have meant cost increases for trash contractors, drawing particularly strong protest, both in public and ...

New Orleans singer Jean Knight first heard 'Mr. Big Stuff' as a slow ballad. She liked the song but wanted to speed it up.

Sen. Royce Duplessis and the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans proposed a constitutional amendment to allow federal money to be used to replace lead water lines on private property.

Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. New Orleans charter school Lycee Francais International de la Louisiane (formerly Lycee Francais de la Nouvelle ...

Syngenta announced last Tuesday (March 3) that it will no longer produce paraquat by June due to competition with other sellers. The company produced the chemical compound at a facility in the middle ...

Under the second administration of President Donald Trump, U.S. Department of Justice officials have set out to review and ...

Born in New Iberia in 1868, Wakefield-Paillet was one of the first three women to enroll in the New Orleans University ...

Members of the New Orleans City Council grilled the leaders of the Krewe of Tucks over a controversial parade display that ...