The city council voted unanimously to overrule the mayor's veto of an ordinance that would adjust the responsibilities of the ...

New Orleans officials scramble to recover court records dumped in landfill, sparking outrage and calls for accountability and ...

The New Orleans City Council on Thursday unanimously defeated Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of a measure that proposed a ...

The New Orleans City Council Aug. 7 overrode Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of a plan to allow voters to weigh in on a change barring the city attorney from representing either the mayor or council in ...

Councilwoman Helena Moreno speaks during a mayoral forum Tuesday evening alongside State Sen. Royce Duplessis, retired Judge ...

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill commented on videos of Clerk Darren Lombard and others rummaging through mounds of ...

So far, about 60 cases of court files have been recovered from the landfill and are being returned to the Public Works site; however, the total amount dumped is unknown. Lombard believes there are ...

Carvin Shachat has worked on a succession of winning mayoral campaigns, including those of Marc Morial, Ray Nagin and LaToya ...

Clerk Darren Lombard confirmed his team went to the Gentilly Landfill on Almonaster Avenue on Monday and Tuesday, where they worked with landfill staff to hunt for paper court records that were ...

A three-judge panel of the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal heard arguments Tuesday (Aug. 5) in the ongoing battle over French Quarter trash collection. Attorneys for sanitation contractor ...