NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Saints are the latest NFL club to enter a joint marketing effort with a state lottery.

The Louisiana Lottery will offer a $5 Saints-branded…

The five-day cocktail convention that invades New Orleans’s French Quarter every July is a way for the country’s mixologists to connect, learn, unwind and, of course, drink.

Actor Danny DeVito served up his own premium “Limoncello” liqueur flavored with zesty Italian lemons and gave a cry of “Salut!” to a drink-sipping crowd at Tales of the Cocktail, a New Orleans cocktail and culinary festival.

The first direct international flight from New Orleans since 2005’s Hurricane Katrina took off from Louis Armstrong International …

Brass band musicians on trumpet, trombone and tuba belted out “A Closer Walk With Thee” as the Essence Music Festival gave a salute to Michael Jackson.

Urban gardens were key to helping New Orleans’s Vietnamese population return and reestablish their close-knit community just weeks after Hurricane Katrina.

When the Essence Music Festival kicks off in New Orleans on Friday, singer Lionel Richie says the celebration of black music and culture will provide some comfort following Michael Jackson’s death.

A top Louisiana scholar has launched an Internet campaign to promote Brad Pitt as the Mayor of his adopted New Orleans. Tulane University professor Dr. Thomas Bayer feels sure the movie star would make a great elected city leader, and he has listed his “13 Reasons Brad Pitt Should Be Mayor” online. He’s dedicated to Pitt’s public office potential.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) | A deal approved this week to fill an empty skyscraper and keep the city’s pro football team raises the bill of taxpayer funded redevelopment projects in downtown New Orleans to $300 million. And those projects are almost the sole source of rebuilding in the city that was devastated four years ago by Hurricane Katrina. Most of the big private investment plans have stalled since the nation sank into recession. Among the casualties: Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million hotel and condominium high-rise and another developer’s $60 million condominium project in the riverfront Warehouse District. The evaporation of …

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A deal approved this week to fill up an empty skyscraper and keep the city’s pro football team raises the bill of taxpayer funded redevelopment projects in downtown New Orleans to $300 million.