A New Orleans man was sentenced to five years probation for defrauding COVID-19 federal aid programs and money laundering, and ordered to pay restitution.

8pm. when the new orleans celebrated mardi gras in 2020 fewer paying attention at all to the coronavirus and no one had any idea of the pandemic to come or the virus that was already two weeks ...

As of March 5 this year, he was one of 657 people who died in New Orleans in a year since the first confirmed COVID-19 death on March 14, 2020, according to data from the Orleans Parish Coroner ...

Here’s another prediction that’s safe to make: The city of New Orleans—and, potentially, all of Louisiana—is going to become the next front in the fight against the pandemic.

Bourbon Street in the New Orleans French Quarter, where businesses have been among the hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The crisis has underscored yet again that the city's economy relies ...

View of an empty street in the French Quarter amid the COVID-19 pandemic on March 27, 2020 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Chris Graythen/Getty Images Louisiana is rapidly becoming a regional epicenter ...

The city had been hit particularly hard by COVID-19. It was an early hotspot for the virus. And Black residents, who comprise about 60% of the city’s population, were disproportionately impacted, ...

As the coronavirus pandemic enters its fifth month, an increasing number of renters from across the country are facing a grim reality -- possible eviction.. In New Orleans, mothers like Shankya ...

With bars closed, parades cancelled and crowds restricted, New Orleans' annual citywide celebrations for Mardi Gras are looking very different this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.. Mardi Gras ...

New Orleans' 109-year-old Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club takes centerstage in the new documentary 'A King Like Me', which explores the challenges the first-ever Black Mardi Gras krewe faced during ...

A couple on bicycles stop in front of shuttered businesses impacted by the coronavirus epidemic, on Royal St, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Tuesday, May 12, 2020.

Half of the roughly 1,500 restaurants in New Orleans may not survive. Skip Navigation. Share on ... the French Quarter restaurant calls it a good day if it turns a profit during the COVID-19 pandemic.