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Category: Top Story

This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

Entergy estimates that most of city should see full restoration by Wednesday; estimates not yet available for hardest-hit areas of state

The Sewerage and Water Board's East Bank Wastewater Treatment plant is back on grid power. Entergy said that service disconnections for residents with power have been temporarily suspended.
by Charles Maldonado September 3, 2021 Updated November 2, 2021

More of city slowly returning to grid power, including critical infrastructure

Wastewater treatment plant expected to be fully operational by the end of the day.
by Charles Maldonado September 2, 2021 Updated September 5, 2021

‘Hopefully not weeks’ for New Orleans power restoration, mayor says

City officials urge caution with gasoline-powered generators after at least 12 people hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning.
by Marta Jewson September 1, 2021 Updated September 5, 2021

Power returns to parts of New Orleans following Hurricane Ida’s blackout

The utility is using its relatively new gas plant to generate power.
by Charles Maldonado September 1, 2021 Updated September 5, 2021

Cantrell to evacuees: ‘Now is not the time for reentry’

Lack of electricity, reduced drainage power make the city unsafe. Damage assessment is underway.
by Charles Maldonado and Marta Jewson August 30, 2021 Updated September 5, 2021

Catastrophic damage from Ida leaves hundreds of thousands without power

Storm downgraded Monday morning, but remains a danger, forecasters said. Schools across metro area closed. Reports of severe flooding in LaPlace, Jean Lafitte.
by Marta Jewson August 30, 2021 Updated September 5, 2021

Prosecutors in 2010 murder case hid payments to witness and evidence implicating another suspect, Innocence Project New Orleans alleges in bar complaints

Kaliegh Smith was convicted of murder in 2010 and released this year after DA Jason Williams’ office said it agreed that there were problems with the case.
by Nick Chrastil August 25, 2021 Updated August 29, 2021

‘People are just reaching a breaking point’: New Orleans EMS employees say pay, COVID burnout contributing to turnover and delays in care

City EMS operations lost almost 20 percent of budgeted staff this year.
by Philip Kiefer August 24, 2021 Updated August 25, 2021

New Orleans schools report 453 cases and 4,657 quarantines among students, staff

Following full approval of the Pfizer vaccine, LDH has no timeline yet for adding COVID shots to the required vaccine list for K-12 schools.
by Charles Maldonado August 23, 2021 Updated August 24, 2021

City Council members maintain legally dubious hotel exemption while reinstating French Quarter sales tax

Even after the vote, how the money is administered will still have to be worked out in an agreement between the Cantrell administration, the City Council and the French Quarter Management District.
by Michael Isaac Stein August 19, 2021 Updated August 19, 2021

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