Rob Masson
Rob Masson is a New Orleans native who has been covering news in the region since he was in high school. The Murrow award winner joined Fox 8 in 1994 and has covered everything from governor’s trials, to hurricanes. He served as News Director at WLSU while in college and is proud to call Louisiana home.
Nasa astronauts pay tribute to New Orleans rocketbuilders at Michoud
In response to the area around New Orleans East continuing to experience “super fog”, a combination of fog and smoke from marsh fires in Bayou Savage, police have shut down parts of I-10 in both directions Wednesday (Nov. 8) morning.
I-10 near Michoud Boulevard and Irish Bayou is closed in both directions Tuesday (Nov. 7) due to multiple early morning accidents as fog and smoke from nearby marsh fires limit visibility on the road.
Efforts like free fentanyl test strip distribution seek to combat the state's fentanyl crisis
Hurricane Otis serves as a sobering example of the concerning trend of rapid storm intensification.
Pearl River man, Will Lee, recalls the harrowing Manchac pile-up where he narrowly survived, amid fog and chaos.
After the tragic pile-up on I-55, the family and friends of beloved Chef Qutub Nagy unite in grief and support
New Orleans religious communities unite against violence in Israel
Experts predict that the salt water’s relentless march upriver will continue
Authorities have maintained that there were no off-site impacts and no threat to the public.
New Orleans police release video footage of a dramatic arrest of two homicide suspects, during which one was shot in the leg.
Two teens on an ATV struck a culvert before it burst into flames, trapping a 14-year-old beneath it, officials say.
The price to travel to New Orleans from the North Shore across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway will increase this fall.
Several LSU baseball players competing for the national championship hail from schools in the New Orleans area
Newly unsealed documents reveal to what lengths the New Orleans Archdiocese went to protect a priest who admitted to molesting multiple teenagers.
A female pastor of a Kentucky Southern Baptist church leaves New Orleans, disappointed just moments after the Southern Baptist Convention voted to oust her church because of her sex.
The Louisiana State Senate overwhelmingly approved the extension of the film tax credit program, providing a significant boost to the state’s film industry.
New Orleans City Council questions nurse assistant's death and raises concerns over police response and judicial actions.
Hundreds of people working in the local movie production industry feel the writer’s strike’s impact.
Sources say Trooper Brett Dupre has been reassigned after allegedly letting two drunk drivers off the hook.
Longtime enterprises lend much to city's character and history
Officer Trevor Abney passed away over the weekend, over two years since he survived an ambush shooting in the French Quarter.
The proposal would have the biggest impact on these medical sterilization facilities. Some of the highest emitting plants in Texas and Louisiana would need to reduce their emissions.
Though experts believe this indictment could solidify Trump’s base in Louisiana, they say at some point, things could swing the other way.
Medline cut the ribbon on a $72 million distribution facility.
The pumps were designed to last 35 years and installed only five years ago.
Real estate experts say the building could be a natural for Air BnBs, especially since the city has been encountering resistance from residential areas that don’t want them in their neighborhoods.
Crime watchdogs say problems with crime in New Orleans go beyond the mayor's claims of COVID and gun proliferation.
Comedian Brandon 'Boogie B.' Montrell, 43, was fatally shot Dec. 23 in the parking lot of the Rouses grocery store at 701 Baronne St. in New Orleans' Warehouse District.
On a frigid day when most people try to stay in, duck hunters in Madisonville loaded up and headed out.
The victims died from blunt and sharp force trauma before their bodies were burned beyond recognition, St. Tammany Parish's coroner said
A River Parishes woman who tried to kill herself as a teen has made it her mission to save others.
One of the North Shore’s largest congregations has become the latest to separate from the United Methodist Church over the question of ordaining gay ministers and permitting same-sex marriages
The low river forced the Army Corps of Engineers to spend millions of dollars to build an underwater sill to block salt water from creeping upriver and threatening drinking intakes.
The Environmental Protection Agency is encouraging the state of Louisiana to shut down an elementary school in Reserve over toxic exposure it calls environmental discrimination.
In spite of improvements to employee pay and hiring, there are still concerns about the state's child welfare department.
River levels are more than 10 feet below normal, causing cruise ships to run aground and preventing cargo ships from dropping off crops.
In an effort to deal with a decline in the speckled trout population, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries officials have voted to decrease the number a singler fisherman may catch.
The old Death Row facility at Angola should be ready to house juveniles by the end of the week, but it could be even longer still before the state's most violent teens make the move.
Two students have been arrested after a teacher was punched trying to break up a fight at Chalmette High School.
Council President Helena Moreno says the city charter gives them the power to reduce the mayor’s salary if she does not pay for the upgrades.
Nearly 30 attorneys filed into court saying not enough has been done to determine Bob Dean’s worth and what he should pay to those who suffered.
High-profile toddler deaths have rocked southeast Louisiana over the past several months. Now, state lawmakers are putting those leaders in the hot seat.
Volunteers and state health workers administered nearly 700 monkeypox vaccines in an effort to stem transmission during Southern Decadence.
A New Orleans city policy states that traveling government employees are required to seek the lowest fares available or reimburse the city for deluxe accommodations.
Attorneys say they have won tentative approval for a multi-million dollar deal to compensate more than 800 nursing home residents who were sent to a nightmarish warehouse in Independence during Hurricane Ida.
New Orleans Police Chief Shaun Ferguson says it is too soon to say whether Mardi Gras 2023 will be canceled after remarks made by Mayor LaToya Cantrell.
State lawmakers were told Monday (Aug. 8) that the promised transfer of violent youth offenders from Bridge City to Angola has yet to take place.
Peterson admitted to funneling more than $147,000 in campaign funds into cash that funded a gambling habit.
The New Orleans City Council’s utilities committee has invited Entergy New Orleans officials to appear at its meeting Tuesday.
