Upper Ninth Ward News Today

The fight, seen in many videos posted on social media, ended in gunfire Thursday afternoon. Three women were hurt.

New Orleans trumpeter Shamarr Allen gives visitors insider tips about his hometown, while releasing a new album and offering children a musical instrument in exchange for a gun.

Demietriek Scott had not been seen or heard from in nearly two weeks.

Abandoned properties in New Orleans that were left behind during Katrina and Ida could prove troublesome for the city.

New Orleans’ Musicians’ Village is a close-knit artist community and an affordable housing initiative undertaken in response to the massive urban devastation and residential displacement caused by levee failures during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Located in the Upper Ninth Ward, one of the areas worst hit by the storm, the Musicians’ Village stretches over three blocks with a series of over seventy colorful shotgun houses.

The storms left much of southeast Louisiana without power for weeks and were major hurricanes.

In New Orleans, as the government struggles to respond to climate change, neighborhood coalitions are taking the initiative to find – and implement – solutions.

NEW ORLEANS — There are still gaping holes left by houses that disappeared forever. There are also the brownish lines, sad reminders of just how high the water level reached on Aug. 29, 2005.
And yet 10 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the song rising from New Orleans is not a melan...

Students at two public schools in Algiers will switch to remote learning starting Thursday, joining the growing number of children across the city who are learning online temporarily due to the omicron variant.

Amy Balkin collects artifacts of sea-level rise, erosion, and glacial melting. Anyone anywhere in the world can mail in a contribution, as long as it weighs half a pound or less.