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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.

More than 3,000 students, school staff in quarantine as active cases jump

The district has reported 370 cases in the early weeks of the school year, nearly half the total for all of last school year.
by Charles Maldonado August 16, 2021 Updated August 16, 2021

OPSB to vote on employee vaccine mandate this week

The policy would require central office staff to get vaccinated by the end of September.
by Marta Jewson August 16, 2021 Updated August 16, 2021

New Orleans to mandate vaccination or negative COVID test to enter many businesses

The rules go into effect on Monday, Aug. 16.
by Michael Isaac Stein August 12, 2021 Updated August 12, 2021

COVID cases among state prisoners more than double since last week, with eight hospitalizations

Eight state prisoners are hospitalized. And the number of cases at the New Orleans jail remains the same, according to a lawyer for the Sheriff’s Office.
by Nick Chrastil August 11, 2021 Updated August 11, 2021

As schools open, New Orleans district reports 116 COVID-19 cases and 638 people quarantining

One New Orleans campus had to close its middle school due to a COVID-related staffing shortage. St. Tammany Parish schools reports 54 student cases, 26 staff cases.
by Marta Jewson August 9, 2021 Updated August 10, 2021

City Council passes ordinance effectively removing all penalties for simple marijuana possession under city law, pardons roughly 10,000 past cases

Police can still cite people under state marijuana laws, but DA Jason Williams has said he will refuse minor drug cases.
by Nick Chrastil August 5, 2021 Updated August 5, 2021

Most New Orleans public high schools to require vaccines for extracurricular activities

Students with ‘exceptional circumstances’ can opt out but will be required to undergo regular COVID-19 testing.
by Marta Jewson August 4, 2021 Updated August 4, 2021

Cantrell administration lays out plans for $70M in federal coronavirus aid

The Cantrell administration said it would ask the City Council in September to increase the 2021 budget by $70 million.
by Michael Isaac Stein August 2, 2021 Updated August 2, 2021

Future of Broadside venue in question as city delays action on outdoor music ban

Several venues have recently stopped operating after the city claimed they were out of compliance.
by Michael Isaac Stein July 30, 2021 Updated July 31, 2021

DA’s office settles all claims in civil rights suit over use of fake subpoenas

The suit accused New Orleans prosecutors of violating the civil rights of witnesses.
by Charles Maldonado July 29, 2021 Updated July 29, 2021

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