Residents at the Gentilly facility are having trouble accessing important personal belongings like IDs, Medicaid cards and cash cards, according to Council Member Lesli Harris.
But as people braced to move, confusion and anxiety spread Tuesday through homeless encampments like the one on Earhart Boulevard beneath the U.S. 90 overpass — the very site where the Landry administration relocated people after a set of similar sweeps before a Taylor Swift concert series last year.
Southern Louisiana from New Orleans to Baton Rouge to Lafayette was covered with historic snowfall Tuesday as Governor Jeff Landry announces closures.
The federal oversight agreement that hangs over the New Orleans Police Department is viewed acrimoniously by police officers, the city council and the state's leaders.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said the state is facing potential record snowfall that could close Mississippi River bridges from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
New transitional shelter for 200 unhoused people opens as the state clears camps near major New Orleans landmarks.
Governor Jeff Landry’s $11 million plan to sweep homeless encampments and open a temporary Gentilly shelter sparks protests in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX.
Encampment residents near Caesars Superdome offered housing at a temporary facility as the city prepares to host Super Bowl LIX.
The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and President Donald Trump's plans to clamp down on illegal immigration.
Days after a winter storm dropped ice and record-breaking snow, cleanup efforts were underway Thursday in several major Southern cities such as New Orleans, where crews were removing snow the same way they remove trash,
When the sun rose on the Gulf Coast Wednesday, palm trees were dusted with snow, waves crashed on icy beaches, and overjoyed Southerners grabbed whatever would slide and headed for the closest hill. This week's historic winter storm has dumped record-breaking amounts of snow from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle,
A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across parts of the Florida Panhandle, Georgia and the coastal Carolinas on Wednesday after breaking snow records in Texas and Louisiana.