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Mitch Landrieu asks BP for $75 million for marketing to prevent local tourism...
New Orleans has already received one-third of $15 million BP gave to Louisiana New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu today sent a letter to BP CEO Tony Hayward asking the company to give the city $75...
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AT&T's U-verse video service coming to Kenner
City Council approves franchies agreement The Kenner City Council has approved a 10-year franchise agreement with AT&T for video service, promising another alternative in the city to cable...
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Al Copeland park: Dream or nightmare?
Even in death, he stirs controversy On the site where Al Copeland loved to glitz up his Metairie neighborhood with extravagant Christmas displays and lavish parties, his family wants to honor his...
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Homosexual couples will get family leave, federal source says
The Labor Department intends to issue regulations this week ordering businesses to give gay employees equal treatment under a law permitting workers unpaid time off to care for newborns or loved ones....
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Mike Yenni advisers focus on money for Kenner City Hall
Property tax considered for police, firefighters Money -- how to generate more and to ensure Kenner is already collecting all it is owed -- is at the heart of a to-do list being finalized by...
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Steven Seagal takes a bow upon leaving Gretna court
Martial-arts actor Steven Seagal ended a brief stint on the witness stand Friday with Asian flair: He turned to Judge Patrick McCabe of the 24th Judicial District Court in Gretna, held his right hand...
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New $7.6 million cost overrun hits Jefferson Parish arts center budget
Total pricetag now 68 percent over original contract The tortured process of planning and building the Jefferson Performing Arts Center has generated another cost overrun, this one its biggest to date...
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New Orleans City Council agrees to pay Johnson Controls bill
Federal corruption investigation led to at least a dozen guilty pleas After months of delay, the New Orleans City Council has agreed to pay $2.7 million to cover the city's 2010 obligations under a...
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Audit cites flaws in Louisiana's interstate jobless payments
An audit report says the state labor department paid more than $21 million in unemployment benefits without getting the required payback of the money from Louisiana employers. According to the...
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Financial industry overhaul bill gets patched up, moves closer to passage
Senate not likely to vote on measure until after July 4 break Congressional Democrats are inching closer to passage of a major rewrite of financial industry regulations, making fixes as they go. Susan...
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Jefferson Parish Council approves $7.6 million price hike for Metairie arts...
The Jefferson Parish Council approved the largest in a long string of cost overruns for the Jefferson Performing Arts Center late Wednesdsay morning, accepting a $7.6 million package of change orders...
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Jefferson Parish Council odds and ends
The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday: The Jefferson Parish Council on Wednesday: Computer services: Gave New Era Information Technologies a $400,000-a-year contract to provide supplemental...
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National flood insurance program extension passes, Sen. Mary Landrieu says
A measure extending the National Flood Insurance Program until Sept. 30 was approved tonight by the Senate, Sen. Mary Landrieu said in a news release. Because federal law requires that anyone...
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu to extend MWH recovery contract
Rate of spending to drop by about a third, however New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu plans to extend for 90 days the city's controversial recovery-management contract with MWH Americas, which expired...
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President Barack Obama blames politics for immigration policy gridlock
Some Republicans push 'border security first' approach focused on enforcement President Barack Obama on Thursday blamed immigration policy gridlock on "political posturing and special interest...
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President Barack Obama awards $2 billion for solar power
Plants in Arizona, Colorado and Indiana targeted in stimulus measure The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs...
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News comment: Stop hiring people without documents
In response to the NOLA.com article, "President Barack Obama blames politics for immigration policy gridlock," reader shasta316 had this to say: "You could put tens of thousands of agents on the...
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New zoning, scrutiny of bars seen as tools to transform Fat City
10 police calls in one month could led to revocation of liquor license They've tried for decades to rehabilitate, re-imagine and remake Fat City, only to see the Metairie nightlife district stubbornly...
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Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon picks Alabama regulator to take over...
BATON ROUGE -- A top-ranking official of the Alabama Department of Insurance has been named by Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon to be the new president and chief executive officer of the Louisiana...
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John Young, Tom Capella, others set for Old Metairie meeting
Once qualifying for the Oct. 2 elections is out of the way, Jefferson Parish Council members John Young, Tom Capella and Cynthia Lee-Sheng are scheduled to hold a town hall meeting Tuesday in Old...
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