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Public Belt Railroad's top client is likely lost
Burlington Northern Santa Fe has taken root in Houston instead To hear longtime employees tell it, the revival in the mid-1990s of the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad owed in no small part to the...
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Iberville housing complex area: the next Lakeside Shopping Center?
Developers visualize a viable shopping district that could compete with Lakeside Shopping Center. Developers tapped to recreate the Iberville public housing complex believe they can also build a...
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FANO audit shows problems with homebuyer-subsidy program
HUD wants state to repay $268,415 in ineligible spending on soft-second mortgage program The Finance Authority of New Orleans used a state homebuyer subsidy to hand out hundreds of thousands of...
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Greg Meffert, former city tech chief, pleads guilty in kickback scheme
Charges against Meffert's wife will be dropped if she cooperates with prosecutors Former New Orleans city technology chief Greg Meffert, who barged into City Hall from the private sector eight years...
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Space shuttle Discovery launch set for Wednesday
A pair of gas leaks in the rocketship forced a two-day postponement NASA has cleared space shuttle Discovery for its final flight.View full sizeJohn Raoux, The Associated Press archiveSpace shuttle...
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FDA tests confirm listeria bacteria at Texas food plant
Four deaths have been blamed on contaminated celery Federal health officials found the listeria bacteria at a San Antonio food processing plant that Texas authorities have linked to four deaths from...
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Jefferson Parish pays land owner to end fighting over metal house on Causeway
Jefferson Parish is paying $150,000 to the builder of a controversial metal house on Causeway Boulevard in Metairie as part of a deal to end two years of legal fighting over the structure. Brett...
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Jefferson Parish red light cameras still in limbo pending audit, lawsuits
Nine months after the stoplight cameras in Jefferson Parish fell into limbo amid questions about the camera company's lobbying practices, parish officials are still waiting for the full results of an...
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Reader poll: What do you think about traffic cameras?
The on-again, off-again traffic cameras apparently are on again in New Orleans. What do you think? The New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 today to transfer oversight of the city's traffic cameras to...
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Bottle deposit considered by state House panel as way to boost recycling
Litter costs state more than $40 million a year, Keep Louisiana Beautiful representative says State and local governments pay $40 million a year to pick up and haul away litter, from cigarette butts...
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Gretna City Council approves moratorium on check-cashing businesses
The Gretna City Council pushed forward Wednesday with its plan to prohibit the opening of check-cashing and short-term loan companies in the city for up to six months, although one last business will...
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Extension of Go Zone tax incentives would help low-income housing in New Orleans
Mary Landrieu planning to fight for it; previous effort was blocked by Republicans Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., is vowing another effort to extend a package of tax incentives created to restore housing...
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Abandoned properties are a growing problem in Rapides Parish
'It brings down everybody's property values' Rapides Parish officials know they have a problem with abandoned, rundown properties. That poses another problem: what to do with them.View full sizeThe...
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Bucktown marina groundbreaking will be Wednesday
Two floating piers will have slips for 70 boats Jefferson Parish officials have announced the beginning of construction on a permanent marina in Bucktown serving commercial and recreational fishers....
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River Ridge legislator wins national business award
State Rep. Kirk Talbot, R-River Ridge, has won an award from a national small business association. Rep. Kirk TalbotTalbot won the Guardian of Small Business award from the National Federation of...
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Bucktown fishing fleet finally poised to escape makeshift accommodations
Two piers will have slips for about 30 commercial fishing boats and 40 recreational boats It's been a long wait for the Bucktown fishing fleet, five years for sure and five decades by some estimates,...
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Other parishes pay far less for trash pickup than New Orleans
Only St. Bernard's costs come close to what New Orleanians pay Just days before Mayor Mitch Landrieu last week reopened New Orleans' two largest trash-collection contracts to competition, a similar...
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Bipartisan commission leaders say cutting deficit will hurt
Co-chairmen admit proposal is DOA, but hope to spur a serious discussion about solving the nation's fiscal woes Voters who demanded Washington rein in the nation's spiraling debt are getting a message...
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What do you think of the bipartisan deficit reduction commission leaders'...
The co-chairmen of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform released their policy recommendations Wednesday as a means of beginning a national debate on reducing the...
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New questions surface about troubled housing recovery program
Case workers are getting paid much less per hour than what company receives from the state The Jindal administration is paying the firm that runs its troubled Hazard Mitigation program $53 an hour for...
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