Joseph Cranney

A 39-year-old man drowned in St. Charles Parish on Sunday evening after jumping into the water off Old Spanish Trail Bridge, the St. Charles Parish Sheriff's Office said

A heavy stench lingered over the New Orleans City Council meeting on Thursday. And it had nothing to do with city business.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson violated state ethics laws when she used sheriff's accounts to pay more than $55,000 to the son of one of her top aides , the Louisiana Board of Ethics has charged.

New Orleans fire fighters responded to a three-alarm building fire Wednesday at a recording studio in Bywater.

Two South Louisiana parishes battered by storms in recent years appeared to have been spared the worst of Hurricane Francine's bracing winds and heavy rains.

The New Orleans City Council on Wednesday took another step toward shoring up the city's problematic power grid in a bid to reduce storm-related and other outages after years of customer complaints.

Rachel Collisson came to New Orleans by way of Texas, Wisconsin, New York, California and Dubai, where she moved with her mom and brother when she was halfway through seventh grade.

An Evacuspot, left, covered in graffiti in front of a New Orleans Fire Station surrounded by construction fencing located at the corner of St.

Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson told the City Council on Monday that the jail has far more inmates than it's capable of holding, costing her

About 180 OPSO deputies were paid premium overtime rates designed for outside law enforcement agencies.