Long-term struggles Despite ample vacant space, attracting grocers to the Lower 9th Ward is challenged by city zoning codes that restrict small businesses over 10,000 square feet, the study says ...

It was just 30 days after Hurricane Katrina marauded across New Orleans when artist Jeffrey Holmes and his then-wife Andrea ...

Jessica Mullen, a Lower 9th Ward resident, said, "It was quiet for a little bit. Then, all of a sudden, you heard five or six gunshots in succession.

Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford and crew build a 3-story ark at 2207 Caffin Ave. in the lower 9th ward, Thursday, October 9, 2008.

Jessica Mullen, a Lower 9th Ward resident, said, "It was quiet for a little bit. Then, all of a sudden, you heard five or six gunshots in succession. There were a bunch of young adults and teens ...

Neighbors said loud gunfire overnight kept them up. WDSU Reporter Shay O'Connor was live from the Lower 9th Ward with a look at home security videos working to piece together what possibly happened.

NEW ORLEANS (WDSU) — One woman said she woke up to a huge police presence outside of her home in the Lower 9th Ward, as police searched for escaped inmate Derrick Groves, who has been on the run ...

Since then, treatment has expanded to the French Quarter, City Park, Gentilly, Marigny, and the Lower 9th Ward. On Wednesday spray abatements were conducted in those areas.

Kim Groves was a 32-year-old mother of three when she was gunned down in the 9th Ward in October 1994. Specifically, the incident occurred along Alabo Street in the Lower 9th Ward.

Helena said she felt terrified seeing SWAT teams surround her home on Lizardi Street in the Lower 9th Ward. “It was too many of them, so many of them, it was a lot of them,” Helena said.