Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer
• October 21, 2022
It was October of 2019. A former Loyola student was out with her friends at a Halloween party when someone approached her and offered her a drink.
She accepted it and woke up on the party’s filthy...
The university and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are warning students to be aware of fraudulent websites, emails, texts or phone scams aiming to deceive those seeking federal loan forgiveness. The...
Michael Goldberg, Associated Press/Report for America
• October 19, 2022
Plummeting water levels in the lower Mississippi River are projected to drop even further in the weeks ahead, a projection shows, dampening the region's economic activity and potentially threatening jobs...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an increased risk of cancer from a nearby chemical plant and...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans street where one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life is being renamed in his honor.
A community-wide Second line and Musical Celebration...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House hosted a summit Oct. 13 to help speed up construction projects tied to the roughly $1 trillion infrastructure law — an effort to improve coordination with the mayors...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fans of New Orleans' Mardi Gras season can expect another year of shortened parade routes.
The Mayor's Mardi Gras Advisory Council said Oct. 13 that the shorter routes of 2022 will...
Two Louisiana parishes devastated by repeated hurricanes and two rural Nebraska counties had among the highest rates of households with missing information about themselves during the 2020 census that...
Christine Barrett was inside her family’s North Port home during Hurricane Ian when one of her children started yelling that water was coming up from the shower.
Then it started coming in from outside...
When the inevitable hurricanes threaten New Orleans, it's hard for India Scott to figure where to go. In the city where she was born and raised, she’s stayed in hotels, relief shelters and, during Hurricane...
Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer
• October 10, 2022
Loyola students, known for forming a line around the satellite Starbucks location outside the university dining hall, will no longer be able to visit another branch of their favorite coffee shop in downtown...
Loyola students’ social media profiles feature photos of them posed at a variety of abandoned buildings around New Orleans.
But with both the recent death of a local teen over the summer and the buildings...
