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Real estate computer crash brings industry to its knees
'We have buyers and sellers standing on the roofs of houses and they're drowning in debt,' one real estate agent says New Orleanians don't blithely throw around comparisons to Hurricane Katrina and...
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Water fiasco raises questions about city's ability to communicate in a crisis
Communication lapses raise questions about what would happen in a real emergency When water pressure plummeted two weeks ago across the east bank of Orleans Parish, records show it took less than a...
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Reader comment: In disposal debate, first reduce the trash each person creates
Responding to Stephanie Grace's opinion piece, "New trash contracts a win-win for Landrieu," reader TinFoilHatGuy commented, in part: Times-Picayune archiveSDT recently renegotiated its contract with...
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IG report suggests many hotels not paying or under-reporting sales taxes to...
Cash-strapped New Orleans city government is losing revenue each year from hotels that either do not pay sales taxes or under-report their revenue, according to an analysis released Monday by the...
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Firm promises to restore missing New Orleans real estate records by Jan. 2
Weary real estate investors cheer new sense of certainty Dale Atkins, clerk of Orleans Parish Civil District Court, inked a deal Tuesday night with a data management firm that promises to restore...
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Jefferson President John Young calls for return of curbside recycling
Jefferson Parish President John Young said Wednesday he wants to resurrect curbside garbage recycling, a program still dormant five years after Hurricane Katrina damaged a sorting center in Metairie....
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Jefferson arts center construction oversight to last longer, cost more
As construction of the Jefferson Performing Arts Center continues to drag and the state legislative auditor investigates how the overdue, over-budget project got so far off track, parish officials...
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Copeland family throws final holiday bash to raise cancer research money
Al Copeland's family is planning one last Christmas bash to cap off more than three decades of plush Copeland soirees and raise money to fight the cancer that claimed the flamboyant restaurant mogul's...
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WikiLeaks protests, cyber-skirmishes rage
U.S. officials say WikiLeaks' actions have thrown diplomacy into disarray Skirmishes raged across cyberspace Thursday between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the...
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Trove of John F. Kennedy photos from White House are sold at auction
Photo of JFK, Bobby Kennedy with Marilyn Monroe was taken after her stirring 'Happy Birthday' serenade to the president A trove of John F. Kennedy pictures by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton,...
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State lawmaker urges Tom Benson to keep Saints playing amid NFL contract...
A Democratic state senator sent a letter to New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson last week urging a resolution to the stalemate that could lead to a lockout of National Football League players when the...
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Freret Street resurgence brings art galleries, theaters, restaurants
Fan James Carville calls street a 'litmus test' of New Orleans' recovery from the storm When Thea Marvin's grandparents started a landscaping business on Freret Street in 1971, the street was a...
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Competition drives down prices for Kenner auditing contract
When a divided City Council decided for the first time in six years to open up Kenner's auditing contract to competition, some members worried aloud that the price might go up. But when the proposals...
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Plans revived for Kenner movie theater at The Esplanade mall
Almost two years after the Kenner City Council approved plans for a 14-screen movie theater at The Esplanade shopping mall, only to see nothing happen, plans are back on track. Al LeBlanc Revised...
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Divided Planning Commission rejects high-rise proposal on Canal Street
Apparently heeding the protests of French Quarter residents and preservationists, the New Orleans City Planning Commission voted 5-4 Tuesday to reject developers' plans for a $70 million high-rise...
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GO Zone fight not yet over, Landrieu and Vitter say
The tax package compromise includes a 1-year extension, but the senators said a second year is needed to complete post-Katrina housing Louisiana Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter failed Wednesday...
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Mid-City YWCA demolished to make way for new building
Construction could get under way by the summer, board president says More than five years after the former YWCA in Mid-City was rendered useless by Hurricane Katrina, wrecking crews on Wednesday began...
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$2.9 billion plan restores MR-GO's environmental damage
10-year project would restore cypress swamp, protect wetlands and build recreation areas The Army Corps of Engineers has unveiled a sweeping $2.9 billion plan to restore the environmental damage...
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Study shows significant savings in River Birch landfill deal
Controversial deal still under federal investigation The River Birch landfill's controversial $160 million garbage-disposal contract with Jefferson Parish would save the parish $42 million to $59...
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Tax bill won't help those who used up jobless aid
Keeps 99 weeks as the maximum, but doesn't provide any more weeks of benefits to those who have reached their state limit The tax-cut bill President Barack Obama is expected to sign Friday renews...
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