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Photos: Take a look at the new Skate Country renovations as it reopens on the West Bank

By CHRIS GRANGER | Staff photographer
Aug 1, 2024

Read more: A popular West Bank skating rink reopens after three-year closure due to Hurricane Ida

Ever feel addicted to food? You’re not alone: Best of Molly Kimball

Molly Kimball
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Best of Molly Kimball: Nutrition columnist Molly Kimball will be on leave until Aug. 6. While she is away, we are revisiting some of her best-read and most popular columns published by NOLA.co…

How a Facebook group stopped a cyanide plant

Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Apr 6, 2019

The story of a bloody pillowcase, a sulfur trioxide leak and a bit of divine intervention

Monsanto sued by Chris Roberts, Jefferson Parish official who cites Roundup for his cancer

Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Monsanto Co. was sued Friday (Sept. 14) by Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, who seeks to blame his cancer on 26 years of exposure to the company's Roundup herbicide. Roberts joins a …

These are the 10 healthiest parishes in Louisiana

Updated Jul 23, 2024

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These are the 10 unhealthiest parishes in Louisiana

Updated Jul 23, 2024

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Show of hands: Slidell students use 3-D printers to make prosthetics for kids

Bob Warren, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Northshore High School students are using 3-D printers to fabricate plastic prosthetic hands that will be used by children. (Photos by Bob Warren, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

Mardi Gras season 2019 by the numbers: Here’s what New Orleans municipal workers did

Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com | Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

While revelers reached for throws, sipped cocktails and paraded in costume during the 2019 Mardi Gras season, New Orleans’ public safety team worked to ensure a safe and orderly Carnival. Here…

Should I get vaccinated? The top 5 questions people have about the measles outbreak

Updated Jul 23, 2024

File - In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, a health care worker prepares syringes, including a vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), for a child's inoculations at the International Com…

5 reasons to stop drinking: An #AlcoholFreefor40 challenge toolkit

Updated Jul 23, 2024

Everyone agrees that excessive drinking is a serious health issue, but we sometimes justify regular drinking with the rationale that a drink a day is good for our hearts. Turns out, however, t…

Southern Rep Theater is just weeks away from opening in permanent home on Bayou Road

Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Sep 18, 2018

For more than four years the Southern Rep Theater?has found temporary homes across performance spaces in different neighborhoods throughout New Orleans.

City leaders call attention to 'Children of Central City'

Greg LaRose, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

City and community leaders gathered Monday night (July 17) for a panel discussion on how violence in New Orleans impacts its youth, a topic brought to the forefront in the recent NOLA.com | Th…

Traumatized children need treatment, not punishment | Editorial

The Times-Picayune Editorial Board
Updated Jul 23, 2024

By the time Elijah was 8 years old he had lost two close family members to violence. His uncle was shot to death in Central City in June 2012, and his aunt was beaten and stabbed to death in A…

Violence leaves a damaging imprint on New Orleans children | Editorial

The Times-Picayune Editorial Board
Updated Jul 23, 2024

In the most violent city in one of the most violent states in the nation, children are suffering. They've witnessed death in their New Orleans neighborhoods, ducked bullets themselves and lost…

The Children of Central City: How to help and find help

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Reading "The Children of Central City" series, you may want to help. Here's how -- and how to find help for your child. You can join the conversation in the comment section.

Here's what the marijuana industry's largest gathering looks like in New Orleans

Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

A brewery specializing in cannabis-infused beers, a business developing CBD-infused toothpicks in different flavors, and Gene Simmons from KISS were just a few of the highlights of a?three-day…

Take a look at the amenities (there's a pool!) inside LSU Health Fitness Center in Algiers

Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

LSU Health Foundation recently celebrated the re-opening of the LSU Health Fitness Center in Federal City after taking over operations about six months ago. The facility includes an outdoor sw…

4 anti-abortion bills approved by Louisiana House committee

Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

By Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Ochsner completes part of $360 million expansion with new West Campus

Maria Clark, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Ochsner Health System announced Thursday (March 15) that it has completed part of its $360 million expansion with the opening of its West Campus at 2614 Jefferson Highway.

The search for Jackie Wallace

Ted Jackson
Feb 3, 2018

“You ought to do a story about me.”

Covington takes on drug companies over opioid crisis

Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Covington?has joined a growing list of government entities to launch legal action against prescription drug makers for their role in the opioid epidemic, which experts say claims about 100 Ame…

A night of Moonlight and Miracles for Ochsner Health System

Sue Strachan
Updated Jul 23, 2024

As no doubt the only party in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome that can deliver the moon and the stars, the fifth annual Moonlight and Miracles?on Nov. 10 proved its popularity by raising more than…

Mandeville ER opens its doors to patients Tuesday

Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

St. Tammany Parish?Hospital opened its free-standing?Mandeville Emergency Department and began providing care Tuesday (Nov. 28) at 9 a.m., the hospital announced. The new facility is located a…

Meet the Louisiana Political Hall of Fame's Class of 2018

Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

By Drew Broach

What are New Orleans' safest hospitals? See how they ranked in national survey

Chelsea Brasted, columnist, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

Only four New Orleans metropolitan area hospitals made an A on Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade for fall 2017.

19 things to know in Louisiana state politics today (Sept. 28)

Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

By Julia O'Donoghue

Here's what Bill Cassidy said upon folding his tent - for now - on health care bill

Drew Broach, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and his three Republican colleagues trying to replace "Obamacare" folded their tent Tuesday (Sept. 26) but said they will try again. Cassidy released a join…

26 things to you need to know in Louisiana state politics today (Sept. 25)

Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
Updated Jul 23, 2024