A Frenchman visiting the Mississippi River near what would become New Orleans writes, "This last summer I examined better than I had yet done all the lands in the vicinity of this river.

NEW ORLEANS -- "It's more civilized in the morning." Ducking into a seafood market for a working lunch on Tuesday, that was ...

1. Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana at 6:10 a.m., but the flooding of residential areas in greater New Orleans actually begins an hour and a half earlier. Between 4:30 and 5 a.m., levees ...

Nova's mother, Amanda Comeaux ... "We were both visiting New Orleans at the time, but he knew the city like the back of his hand. We would buy paintings off the street, and I remember we would ...

Bitter Arctic air plunged more than half the United States into a deep freeze Tuesday, including New Orleans, where the ...

Today, Droddy managing operations for Nova International Shipping Services, a subsidiary of global food corporation Cargill. Droddy got her start in the agency business in 1998, when she began working ...