Columnist Will Sutton looks at the complicated process of determining the field of candidates for an election.

The City of New Orleans has launched an effort to find the lost remains of Ferris LeBlanc, a World War II veteran who died in a 1973 fire that killed 32 people at a popular French Quarter gay bar ...

Clark, a candidate for City Council District D, lost his appeal after being disqualified due to tax filing allegations.

New Orleans’s storm surge protection system was built largely in response to Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city in 2005, killing more than 1,800 people and causing more than $160 ...