New Orleans

Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico is creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in some Louisiana communities. With little precipitation in the forecast, officials are now hastily preparing for if and when the salt water will reach the state’s most populous city — New Orleans.

Movie star Anthony Mackie was back in his home town — and back at an old job — as he took part in a program to help people needing roof repairs and replacements after natural disasters.

Stephen Sauer, 61, targeted people in the city’s French Quarter who appeared drunk, lost or in need of help, according to Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul D. Connick Jr.

California Live correspondent Laila Muhammad is ready with her Mardi Gras beads for her trip to Bar Envie, a cocktail-centric bar and lounge inspired by New Orleans. Owner Geoff Rau shares why he wanted to bring the Big Easy flavor to Long Beach through food and cocktails.

The waiter was believed to be the target of the attack, which happened during the city’s annual Jazz Fest.

New Orleans’ annual Carnival season entered its ebullient crescendo Tuesday with thousands of revelers gathering in the French Quarter and lining miles of parade routes in a citywide Mardi Gras celebration underpinned this year by violent crime concerns and political turmoil.

The lead up to New Orleans’ annual Mardi Gras celebration intensifies Friday with events big and small.

A New Orleans man stopped a would-be car thief on Christmas Day in an altercation caught on a security camera.

A major storm system that included tornado activity killed three in Louisiana on Wednesday. NBC 5’s Allie Spillyards has the latest.

Three men imprisoned since the 1990s for a fatal New Orleans drive-by shooting have been ordered freed and their convictions vacated. Prosecutors joined defense lawyers in seeking to have their convictions tossed out by a judge.

A ground worker at New Orleans’ airport died in an accident Tuesday when her hair became entangled in machinery while she was offloading an aircraft, officials said. Jermani Thompson was servicing a Frontier Airlines flight around 10 p.m. when the accident happened, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport said. Thompson, 26, an employee of GAT Airline Ground Support, was rushed…

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the 28th Essence Festival in New Orleans about issues facing Black women.

The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them, officials and others familiar with the inquiry told The Associated Press. More than a dozen alleged abuse victims have…

An elderly woman was killed and two males wounded when an argument between two females erupted into gunfire Tuesday at a university campus after a high school graduation there, New Orleans police said. The males received wounds that were not life-threatening — one hit in a shoulder, the other in a leg, authorities told news outlets. Police did not give…

Seventeen years after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed an extensive system of floodgates, strengthened levees and other protections.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for three children who went missing in the Mississippi River near New Orleans’ Crescent City Connection bridge Saturday

Severe storms and a possible tornado damaged buildings and downed power lines in northwest Arkansas early Wednesday as tornadoes and hurricane-force winds were forecast in much of the Deep South, a week after severe storms struck the New Orleans area.