NEW ORLEANS – Verizon Wireless, operator of the nation's largest 4G LTE network, announced that Keith Gladhill has been named president – Houston/ Gulf Coast. He replaces Krista Bourne, who was recently named president – Carolinas and Tennessee region for…
JEFFERSON PARISH, LA – Gov. Bobby Jindal and TriWest Healthcare Alliance CEO David J. McIntyre Jr. announced the company has selected Jefferson Parish to establish the TriWest Healthcare Alliance New Orleans Operations Center, which will serve as a traditional contact…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The federal government is holding public meetings this week in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana as it works on a supplemental environmental impact statement for an oil lease sale tentatively planned for 2017. The lease sale…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Associated Press Louisiana Daybook for Monday, August 31. Aug. 31 – SHREVEPORT – HOTEL-MOTEL PROPOSITION — Shreveport Mayor Ollie Tyler and Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker will hold a joint press conference to discuss the…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of New Orleans' national football and basketball teams has added $522 million in promissory notes to his former heirs' trust funds to try to get back the trusts' nonvoting shares in the Saints and…
NEW ORLEANS – More than 10,000 volunteers took part in New Orleans’ Citywide Day of Service event to mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Saturday, August 29, 2015. Mayor Landrieu and several dignitaries laid wreaths at the Hurricane…
NEW ORLEANS – On Thursday, September 3, 2015, from 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., at the Treme Recreation Center, 900 N. Villere St., the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development will present a business information session featuring presentations on services and…
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane Family Business Center will host “Starting From Scratch: A Tale Of Growth With Two Family-Owned Businesses,” a forum presentation on Friday, September 11, 2015, from 8:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Tulane University’s Kendall Cram…
NEW ORLEANS – The recent hacking of AshleyMadison.com, a website designed to connect married individuals with others for the purpose of extra-marital affairs, has publicly humiliated professionals across the country. As a business owner, what should you do if…
LAFAYETTE, LA – Ducks Unlimited received a $4 million award from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) through the Gulf Coast Conservation Grants Program to support wetland restoration on private lands in…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — As lawmakers patched their way through this year's budget, many of them talked as if they had drawn up a six-month plan, fully expecting Louisiana's next governor to come in with a broader blueprint for fixing…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Jindal administration plans to test vehicle-sharing among state agencies to reduce the number from the current 10,500. The large number of cars owned by state government has been criticized for at least half a century.…
BAYOU CANE, LA (AP) — Bayou Cane fire officials say they plan to use the department's share of the oil spill settlement from BP PLC to pay the first installment on their two new fire trucks The Courier’s Maki…
DONALDSONVILLE, LA (AP) — Ascension Parish government has reached an agreement in principle with Peoples Water Service Co. to buy its water operations in Donaldsonville for $5.9 million. If the deal goes through, officials say the parish plans to…
LAFAYETTE, LA (AP) — Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, says its new assembly center in Lafayette is open for business. The company said in a news release Thursday that it expects to begin production next year…
MONROE, LA (AP) — CenturyLink says dozens of positions will be reduced in Louisiana as part of the company's proposal to eliminate 1,000 jobs companywide. Annmarie Sartor tells The News-Star’s Scott Rogers the company will cut the headcount in…
JACKSON, MS (AP) — From Gulfport to Gautier to Ocean Springs, Bobby Windham has crisscrossed the Mississippi Gulf Coast living in Katrina cottages. He loves their durability. The cottages, built as an alternative to FEMA emergency housing for those…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush returned Friday to New Orleans — the scene of one of his presidency's lowest points — to tout the region's recovery from the nation's costliest natural disaster on the 10th anniversary…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Associated Press Louisiana Daybook for Friday, August 28. Aug. 28-29 – URBAN LEAGUE – KATRINA — The Urban League of Greater New Orleans, with the National Urban League, convenes experts to discuss post-Katrina New Orleans…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that the federal government should foot the bill — tagged at about $3 billion — for fixing damage done to wetlands just outside New Orleans by a shipping channel the Army Corps…
NEW ORLEANS – On Saturday August 29, 2015, President Bill Clinton, will join New Orleans residents, community leaders, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, and advocates who over the last 10 years helped the City recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, in…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Visiting residents on tidy porch stoops and sampling the fried chicken at a corner restaurant, President Barack Obama held out the people of New Orleans on Thursday as an extraordinary example of renewal and resilience 10…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Coming off a career-threatening injury, Drew Brees had little choice but to sign with a downtrodden franchise in a disaster zone. Sean Payton became coach of the Saints only after being passed over for the job…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Talk to folks on the street about the "holy trinity" and you're as likely to get a lesson on onions, celery and peppers as you are Catholicism. That's New Orleans, a city where eating has long…
NEW ORLEANS – Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu will be joined by HUD Secretary Julián Castro along with federal, state and local officials to celebrate the grand opening of Bienville Basin community at the former Iberville Housing Development, at the intersection…
FAIRFIELD, LA – Hurricane Katrina shook the foundation of the Jefferson Parish community, but it did not break it. Instead, Jefferson Parish residents, companies and organizations exhibited strength in the face of disaster. The community collaborated and everyone worked together.…
MIAMI – Carnival Cruise Line – New Orleans’ number one cruise operator – continues to expand its presence at the port and expects to carry a record 400,000 passengers from the Crescent City this year. Additionally, the cruise line…
NEW ORLEANS – On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, causing widespread devastation and destruction in its wake. Today, CITGO Petroleum Corporation and its Caring for Our Coast program will come together with Audubon Nature…
NEW YORK (AP) — You, your mom, your grandma and elementary school buddy Lawrence might have been some of the billion people who logged in to Facebook on Monday — the first time that has happened in a single day.…
NEW IBERIA, LA (AP) — Another oil and gas service company will expand operations at the Port of Iberia. The Advocate’s Billy Gunn reports Bayou Companies is embarking on $39 million in upgrades to the pipe-coating facility at the…
