1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (415+ words) For 2024, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. was 79 years, an increase from 78.4 in 2023, according to data released in August from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The difference in life expectancy between the sexes was 4.9 years in 2024, decreasing 0.4 year…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (447+ words) A rendering shows the front of Lognion’s on the Lakefront. When seeing how much “untapped potential” there was along the Lake Charles lakefront, Chris Lognion wanted to make a reason for visitors and residents to be able to regularly spend…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (473+ words) Pam Fortner, the co-founder of Tropical Isle who helped create one of Bourbon Street’s most recognizable drinks, died on Tuesday, her nephew, Jason Fortner, confirmed. She was 80. Pam Fortner and her lifelong business partner, Earl Bernhardt, who died in 2019, helped…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (22+ words) Mexico Frida Kahlo Death Anniversary NOLA.com Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and surrealist, poses at her home in Mexico City, April 14, 1939....

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (120+ words) NOLA.com Imagining Walter Anderson mingling within the hustle and bustle of New Orleans doesn't seem quite right. The Mississippi artist preferred solitude, so much so that he would often hop in his wooden rowboat for the hourslong trek to…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (46+ words) NOLA.com The Louisiana Children's Museum celebrated its 40th anniversary with a "Party Like It's 1986" birthday party at the museum in City Park. The museum celebrated with retro activities, cake and live music by Where Y'acht....

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (396+ words) The shotgun house in New Orleans’ 7th Ward that has been home to Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge for more than a decade is for sale, jazz trumpeter Kermit Ruffins said Wednesday. Ruffins, who acquired the lease to the historic Mother-in-Law Lounge…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (27+ words) asc women image2.jpg NOLA.com Picture Two:left to right: Member Dora Lumpkin receiving an award for her service to the community and Branch from President Quentina Brown...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (357+ words) A lovebug crawls up a blade of smooth cordgrass Friday, April 24, 2026, at the UL Lafayette Ecology Center in Lafayette, La. With the start of September comes the return of lovebugs around Louisiana, and this fall, residents may see more of…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (395+ words) There is nothing so American as a bootstrap tale — the story of a person, through hard work and determination, pulling themselves up from poverty to success. That’s why we are disappointed that the state and federal governments seem determined to…...