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Despite new money worries, state and city officials held a groundbreaking Monday for a proposed $1.2 billion hospital in the heart of New Orleans to replace the long-shuttered Charity public hospital flooded during Hurricane Katrina and still closed despite public outcries to reopen it. The groundbreaking was in a parking lot where part of the ...

The Essence Music Festival officially kicked off its 17th annual celebration of black culture and music Thursday with the traditional sounds of New Orleans’ own Rebirth Brass Band leading the way. “We feel so at home in this city and this state,” Michelle Ebanks, president of Essence Communications Inc. , said during a news conference ...

A bill that House Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin is sponsoring would dip into taxes that are legally dedicated to financing the convention center’s expansion. Plus, it would bypass the Exhibition Hall Authority, a state board with its own mandate.

The economic recovery, combined with the city’s ability to host large-scale events, is spurring the growth of business meetings in New Orleans, where hotel bookings are running ahead of last year’s pace.

New Orleans is bracing for record crowds as the biggest sporting event of the year, the NFL Super Bowl, collides with Mardi Gras season in what many locals are calling "Super Gras."

The properties include single-family homes, doubles and vacant lots and will sell as is to the highest bidder regardless of price.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one controversial bill related to New Orleans tourism and vetoed another.

First Lady Michelle Obama will give the keynote speech at a Latino conference next month in New Orleans

With so many New Orleans hotels changing hands in the past two years, some feel the market is right to begin building new lodging properties in the city.

The LSU AgCenter is growing bucket loads of vegetables — some 60 to 80 pounds of fresh produce per week — at a new demonstration garden just steps from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, feet from the zooming traffic of Tchoupitoulas Street and smack under the watchful gaze of a giant Poseidon statue.

With the revitalization of old office shells into new residential buildings, the refurbishment of worn down hotels into sleeker lodging properties, and the construction of a pair of new hospital complexes, New Orleans’ downtown has already seen an unprecedented influx of development activity.

The ongoing redevelopment of assorted downtown properties continued to dominate headlines in 2015, as several major projects were either started or completed this year.

A five-story warehouse building and an adjacent parking lot near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center could be the site of a new hotel project in the Central Business District.

A new hotel project near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Monday received approval from the city’s zoning board for variances on height, setback and number of floors.

The board of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center has acquired the former Louisiana ArtWorks building in the Warehouse District and entered into a cooperative endeavor agreement with an organization that plans to open a culinary school at the location.

The properties include single-family homes, doubles and vacant lots and will sell as is to the highest bidder regardless of price.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law one controversial bill related to New Orleans tourism and vetoed another.

First Lady Michelle Obama will give the keynote speech at a Latino conference next month in New Orleans

With so many New Orleans hotels changing hands in the past two years, some feel the market is right to begin building new lodging properties in the city.

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