The Delta Queen entered service in 1927 and quickly made some historic voyages, including a 5,000-mile journey from California, through the Panama Canal and across the Gulf of America to get to New Orleans. Here, she's spotted at Yerba Buena in probably the late 1930s. Photo: San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
馃殺 Wanna buy a historic steamboat? The Delta Queen is on the market after its owners say they've exhausted every chance to revive the steamboat after it was bound for scrap in 2015. (Facebook)
鉀筹笍 The long-awaited Topgolf facility in the River District has been scuttled after missed deadlines and some neighborhood opposition to the project. (The Times-Picayune 馃敀)
馃毊 Mayor LaToya Cantrell is being sued over the nearly $75 million trash pick-up deal she signed with Henry Consulting. IV Waste is set turn over garbage collection on Aug. 1 to Troy Henry's company. (WDSU)
Cantrell won in court yesterday on a separate matter. A judge deemed the City Council's travel ban "unconstitutional and void." The council is set to discuss it privately at today's meeting. (WWL)
馃悗 Horse racing will return to the Fair Grounds this year after a standoff between Churchill Downs and state leaders over a subsidy lawmakers declined to dole out. (WWL)
馃 The state's first human case of West Nile virus for the year has been confirmed in Livingston Parish. (Press releaseandsymptoms)
