New Orleans

Singer-songwriter and Maroon 5 band member PJ Morton has just published his autobiography. This is an edited extract

The Big Easy is much like small-town South Africa — charming, with poverty in the back streets

Soweto International Jazz Festival aims to facilitate encounters with the locals that extend beyond what existing tourism initiatives have achieved.

The Big Easy has clamped down on smoking in the city’s bars — but you can still smoke on the streets.

A symbolic funeral held to give hurricane victims closure has highlighted the ongoing trauma faced by those who fled and those who have returned.

United States President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sunday, praised the city’s resilience.

US government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing a disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August.

The oil spill hits its 40th day on Saturday with Gulf residents clinging to one hope: that BP’s complicated "top kill" operation will plug the well.

Louisiana is the third-most popular state in which to shoot a film in the United States, thanks chiefly to huge tax incentives.

A South African woman, whose husband and mother-in-law were murdered five years ago in New Orleans, has unveiled a handbook for other ”survivors”.

Three years after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is mounting­ the United States’s biggest biennial of modern art. Teri Grenert reports.

Authorities on the US Gulf Coast were on Tuesday struggling to orchestrate the orderly return of nearly two million evacuees to New Orleans.

Hurricane Gustav slammed ashore on the US Gulf Coast near New Orleans on Monday but rebuilt levees appeared to hold floodwaters out of the city.

Hurricane Gustav roared ashore on the US Gulf Coast on Monday, lashing New Orleans with winds and rain but sparing the city its full force.

Republicans open their convention on Monday to nominate presidential candidate John McCain with no pomp and little politics.