New Orleans and Baton Rouge rank among the most dangerous cities in the United States, according to a WalletHub study. WalletHub evaluated 182 cities using 41 metrics across three dimensions to ...

New Orleans police are battling what assistant chief Hans Ganthier calls "an unacceptable increase in shootings and murders" — despite an overall year-over-year improvement in the city's violent crime ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) strongly condemns the Trump administration’s continued attacks on prominent, Black-led ...

NEW ORLEANS — A top New Orleans police official on Tuesday welcomed the possibility of a National Guard deployment in his city but pushed back on suggestions of rising crime rates and said he was ...

Marc Morial served as mayor of New Orleans during the mid '90s when his city held the title murder capital of the country.

A sense of optimism is in the air. New Orleanians are hopeful that lingering infrastructure and quality-of-life issues will finally be addressed by Mayor-elect Helena Moreno and the new city council.

With the launch of its new Mark43 system, the New Orleans Police Department becomes compliant with the FBI's national ...