Coastal Restoration

With the fate of bars across New Orleans a vexing question through the pandemic, there’s change ahead for one of the city’s old greats.

The Advocate went into New Orleans six years ago to challenge the city’s 182-year-old paper, The Times-Picayune. Now The Advocate is the last one standing.

Two years ago, a photographer began documenting the remaining black-owned bars and lounges on a storied stretch of St. Bernard Avenue. Inside these spaces, tradition is paramount.

This is the second in a series exploring the coastal communities that once surrounded greater New Orleans, principally along the brackish waters of the tidal lagoon known as Lake Pontchartrain.

Café du Monde is the apparent winner of a closely watched contest to operate a beignet parlor in City Park. Morning Call, the current operator, has already begun looking for

In recent court filings, the utility’s lawyers argue the S&WB’s actions during emergency situations make it “immune to liability for policymaking and discretionary acts.”

The ultrasweet street daiquiri is the official drink of every hell-hot New Orleans summer, and they're traditionally slurped out of giant go-cups, but this culture is under attack from snobbish city authorities.

Last weekend, New Orleanians noticed a big fireball coming from the Chalmette Refining refinery. Some worried there had been an explosion, but it turns out

Sylvester “Hawk” Francis, a chronicler of Black New Orleans life who as founder and curator of the Backstreet Cultural Museum became an important custodian of the city's culture, died Tuesday

Burnell Cotlon, on his beloved community and why he’s keeping a secret list.

Mother Nature took the rap for destroying New Orleans when the real culprit was the surge up MR-GO and the missing marshes.

The 25-acre former 'motherhouse,' badly damaged in Hurricane Katrina, will become one of the largest urban wetlands in the U.S.

Record flooding, human-made channels and environmental disasters have exacerbated the already harsh effects of climate change in Louisiana's Mississippi Delta, impacting the region's coastal wildlife and seafood supplies. Special correspondent Joshua Landis reports on how local oyster farmers are coping as part of our series, "Peril and Promise" in partnership with Nexis Media News.

Storm surge accompanying potential Category 1 Hurricane Barry may cause overtopping Saturday of much of the Mississippi river levee in the Lower 9th Ward, Algiers and St. Bernard Parish, according

'Too many people are afraid to speak out that matter,' Matt Bowers says

This month marks a year since the Aug. 5, 2017 flash flood and subsequent investigations in New Orleans.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers soon will hand over permanent pumping stations at the mouths of New Orleans' three primary drainage canals. The temporary pumps, which were beset with corrosion for years, will go offline.