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.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Nasa astronauts pay tribute to New Orleans rocketbuilders at Michoud
Updated: Nov. 8, 2023 at 3:59 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2023 at 4:36 PM CST
|By Andrés Fuentes, Rob Masson and Chris Welty
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.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2023 at 10:11 AM CST
|By Rob Masson
Efforts like free fentanyl test strip distribution seek to combat the state's fentanyl crisis
Updated: Oct. 30, 2023 at 4:55 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Hurricane Otis serves as a sobering example of the concerning trend of rapid storm intensification.
Updated: Oct. 25, 2023 at 4:30 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Pearl River man, Will Lee, recalls the harrowing Manchac pile-up where he narrowly survived, amid fog and chaos.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2023 at 4:18 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
After the tragic pile-up on I-55, the family and friends of beloved Chef Qutub Nagy unite in grief and support
Updated: Oct. 10, 2023 at 8:22 AM CDT
|By Rob Masson
New Orleans religious communities unite against violence in Israel
Updated: Sep. 25, 2023 at 4:59 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Experts predict that the salt water’s relentless march upriver will continue
Updated: Aug. 28, 2023 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Authorities have maintained that there were no off-site impacts and no threat to the public.
Updated: Aug. 9, 2023 at 5:45 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
New Orleans police release video footage of a dramatic arrest of two homicide suspects, during which one was shot in the leg.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2023 at 5:37 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Two teens on an ATV struck a culvert before it burst into flames, trapping a 14-year-old beneath it, officials say.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2023 at 12:02 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The price to travel to New Orleans from the North Shore across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway will increase this fall.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2023 at 6:24 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Several LSU baseball players competing for the national championship hail from schools in the New Orleans area
Updated: Jun. 20, 2023 at 5:59 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Newly unsealed documents reveal to what lengths the New Orleans Archdiocese went to protect a priest who admitted to molesting multiple teenagers.
Updated: Jun. 14, 2023 at 8:56 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Jun. 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The Louisiana State Senate overwhelmingly approved the extension of the film tax credit program, providing a significant boost to the state’s film industry.
Updated: May. 25, 2023 at 5:18 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
New Orleans City Council questions nurse assistant's death and raises concerns over police response and judicial actions.
Updated: May. 18, 2023 at 4:47 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Hundreds of people working in the local movie production industry feel the writer’s strike’s impact.
Updated: May. 11, 2023 at 4:58 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Sources say Trooper Brett Dupre has been reassigned after allegedly letting two drunk drivers off the hook.
Updated: May. 1, 2023 at 9:44 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Longtime enterprises lend much to city's character and history
Updated: Apr. 10, 2023 at 4:38 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Officer Trevor Abney passed away over the weekend, over two years since he survived an ambush shooting in the French Quarter.
Updated: Apr. 6, 2023 at 1:19 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Apr. 4, 2023 at 4:42 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Though experts believe this indictment could solidify Trump’s base in Louisiana, they say at some point, things could swing the other way.
Updated: Mar. 30, 2023 at 3:46 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Medline cut the ribbon on a $72 million distribution facility.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 7:54 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The pumps were designed to last 35 years and installed only five years ago.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2023 at 5:28 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 5:40 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
Crime watchdogs say problems with crime in New Orleans go beyond the mayor's claims of COVID and gun proliferation.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 5:50 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 9:23 PM CST
|By Rob Masson
On a frigid day when most people try to stay in, duck hunters in Madisonville loaded up and headed out.
Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 7:01 AM CST
|By Rob Masson
The victims died from blunt and sharp force trauma before their bodies were burned beyond recognition, St. Tammany Parish's coroner said
Updated: Nov. 22, 2022 at 10:32 AM CST
|By Rob Masson
A River Parishes woman who tried to kill herself as a teen has made it her mission to save others.
Updated: Nov. 2, 2022 at 5:54 AM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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
Updated: Oct. 26, 2022 at 5:52 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 6:01 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Oct. 20, 2022 at 5:29 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
In spite of improvements to employee pay and hiring, there are still concerns about the state's child welfare department.
Updated: Oct. 11, 2022 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
River levels are more than 10 feet below normal, causing cruise ships to run aground and preventing cargo ships from dropping off crops.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2022 at 12:58 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Sep. 26, 2022 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 3:18 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Two students have been arrested after a teacher was punched trying to break up a fight at Chalmette High School.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 10:01 AM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 5:27 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 5:14 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
High-profile toddler deaths have rocked southeast Louisiana over the past several months. Now, state lawmakers are putting those leaders in the hot seat.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 8:52 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Volunteers and state health workers administered nearly 700 monkeypox vaccines in an effort to stem transmission during Southern Decadence.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 5:06 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Aug. 25, 2022 at 4:01 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 4:48 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 9:00 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
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.
Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 7:39 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
Peterson admitted to funneling more than $147,000 in campaign funds into cash that funded a gambling habit.
Updated: Jul. 25, 2022 at 9:14 PM CDT
|By Rob Masson
The New Orleans City Council’s utilities committee has invited Entergy New Orleans officials to appear at its meeting Tuesday.