Missy Wilkinson

The cuts, which would slash approximately 62 full-time-equivalent positions, would save the city an estimated $4.3 million. But some criminal justice experts are raising alarms about how the changes could affect an understaffed department, especially as the agency has made strides in crime prevention.

Kendrick Allison, 22, and Edward Stewart, 36, were booked into Orleans Justice Center late Thursday on assault by drive-by shooting, aggravated criminal damage to property, possession of a firearm in a firearm-free zone and illegal use of weapons, among other counts.

A former New Orleans Department of Safety and Permits employee will be booked into jail on four felony counts for allegedly creating fraudulent short-term rental licenses, officials confirmed Monday.

More than two months after Alphonse “Big June” Hogan disappeared from his 7th Ward duplex , New Orleans officials are still working to locate the remains of the 68-year-old man who detectives say was killed by his nephew.

The scheme involved 810 Bienville Street, a French Quarter address that houses the 97-unit D.H. Holmes Apartments building.

A New Orleans woman last month gunned down her ex-husband's girlfriend near a New Orleans East storage unit before fleeing to Mississippi, court documents show.

A former Department of Safety and Permits employee arrested for allegedly creating fake short-term rental licenses made hundreds of edits to 27 different l

"This has the potential to dramatically disrupt our ability to help people," Court Watch NOLA director Jesse Manley said. "It's disappointing. I feel I have been let down by the LSUNO community."

Several New Orleans nonprofits that had for years been housed at the former University of New Orleans campus were forced to scramble for new offices

In spring 2025, Christopher Cross stood outside a Poydras Street methadone clinic, introducing his friend Rodney Ramon Jackson as "Desire Project's finest" in a video he would later post to Facebook.