Month: January 2025

Amid the suspension of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine, Leonore Gewessler, Austria’s Minister for Climate and Energy, has announced that her country is no longer reliant on Russian gas, adding, “and that’s a good thing”.

At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured in New Orleans after a driver plowed a car into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street, police and city officials said.

At least 10 people are dead and 27 others hurt after a car plowed into a crowd at Bourbon and Iberville Streets in New Orleans.

So far, this winter has seen one of the warmest Decembers on record in much of the northern United States.

Similar to the historic winter storm that hit Texas in 2021, a polar vortex is making its presence known.

Emergency services called out in early hours of New Year’s Day after reports of car driving into crowd

An investigation is underway after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Jan. 1, leaving one person dead and seven others injured, according to local authorities.

The NOPD responded to a fatal traffic crash that occurred during the early hours today (January 1, 2024) at the intersection of Bourbon and Canal streets that has resulted in multiple fatalities and injuries, including the suspected pereptrator.

It is officially 2025 and ‘Life Kit’ is kicking the year off with a series to help people complete Dry January successfully. And, a look ahead for this year from pop culture to politics.

Jimmy Cothran, a New Orleans resident who was in a nearby nightclub at the time of the incident, spoke with NBC News about the horrors he and others witnessed. Sharing that he and friends noticed “a lot of commotion” at the end of Bourbon Street, Cothran said he ducked into the nightclub going up onto a balcony to see what had happened.