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New data shows more business travelers are blending work and leisure, and New Orleans is well-positioned to benefit from the shift.

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New Orleans tourism depends on transportation to connect visitors with hotels, restaurants, conventions, cruise terminals, festivals and attractions across the city and surrounding region.

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New Orleans has announced a citywide 2026 Halloween slate running from mid-October through Halloween weekend, led by the free Krewe of BOO! parade on Oct. 24 and family events, ticketed parties and museum programming across the city.

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New research tied to the Lalaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street says the Lower Girls’ School opened there in 1870 as the first racially integrated public school in the South.

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The Chopin Law Firm’s Leah R. Rhodes and John C. Wegmann spoke at a New Orleans Bar Association CLE on July 15, 2026, focused on workers’ compensation and third-party liability claims.

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Louisiana’s cypress swamps are doing more than shaping iconic scenery.

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Prevue Meetings + Incentives and Caesars Entertainment will announce a new industry-wide effort in New Orleans on Aug. 3 aimed at recognizing the professionals behind meetings and events worldwide.

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DAA Media + Marketing is committing $50,000 to an advertising scholarship at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication, with the first awards expected this fall.

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All Dogs Unleashed Bossier City says more pet owners in Caddo and Bossier parishes want dogs that can handle off-leash areas safely and respond under distraction.

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T.D. Swanbeck’s debut novel, The Alligator Curse, follows a 22-year-old LSU graduate who wakes up transformed into an alligator in New Orleans and has to break a family curse before it becomes permanent.

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As Greater New Orleans hosts weddings, conventions, festivals, sporting events and airport arrivals, organized group transportation is helping organizers manage traffic, parking and timing.

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The Marc and Kiki Barnes Foundation drew more than 153 high school and college-aged young women to LSU New Orleans for its inaugural career fest focused on sports, business, media and leadership.

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Gordon McKernan and Keyala Cottrell will give away 432 backpacks and school supply kits to New Orleans students on July 25 at the Treme Recreation Community Center.

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New Orleans’ packed calendar of festivals, conventions, games, parades and cruises is driving higher transportation demand across the city.

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Snooknuk’s All In Good Time launched Aug. 14 and quickly reached No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes Children’s Albums chart.

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A women-focused sound bath will bring live New Orleans jazz and sound healing to a restored 19th-century church in the Marigny on Friday, July 3, during Independence Day weekend.

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Party bus services remain a common choice for weddings, birthdays, corporate outings and festivals across the Greater New Orleans area as groups look for simpler logistics and coordinated travel.

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Louisiana’s swamps continue to shape the state’s ecology, history and tourism economy as restoration and education efforts grow across the Gulf Coast.

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LumiNicole is back as the official beauty partner at Hyatt Regency New Orleans for Essence Festival weekend, expanding its guest activation with founder meet-and-greets, product sampling and a VIP relaxation lounge.

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Otherworld Media has signed a distribution deal with Blackstone Publishing for Treasure Island: A Telling for the New World, an 8-hour radio mini-series based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel.