A competition aims to improve New Orleans infrastructure, men who love video games are leaving the workforce permanently, Ben Franklin High School will keep its name and more. Here's a look at today's top stories in New Orleans for Thursday, April 6, 2023.

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Can a competition strengthen New Orleans area infrastructure? Organizers want to find out

Parks that absorb stormwater? Wetlands brought back to life on the edge of New Orleans?

Those are the kinds of ideas that could qualify for major grant money as part of a competition to improve New Orleans area infrastructure at a time of intensifying storms.

Who's leaving the workforce? Unmarried men under 40 who love video games, economist says

The growing number of people who have withdrawn from the U.S. is made up of most unmarried men under the age of 40 who spend about seven hours a day playing video games, an economist said.

EPA head proposes new pollution cuts at chemical plants in Louisiana visit

EPA Administrator Michael Regan returned to Louisiana on Thursday in a trip that produced both symbolism and concrete steps, announcing proposed new rules aimed at reducing pollution at more than 200 facilities nationwide as he spoke in the shadow of a controversial chemical plant in St. John the Baptist Parish.

Ben Franklin High School to keep its name but will 'de-emphasize Franklin the person' 

Amid a racial reckoning sparked by the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, the Orleans Parish School Board, like many other districts across the country, renamed about two dozen school buildings whose names honored segregation supporters, slaveholders and White supremacists.

Erik Johnsen, New Orleans steamship owner, maritime entrepreneur, Rex in 1991, dies at 97

Erik F. Johnsen, a steamship owner and maritime entrepreneur who reigned as Rex, king of Carnival, in 1991, died Tuesday at his New Orleans home. He was 97.