The New Year's Day vehicle attack that killed 14 people and injured more than 30 in the French Quarter of New Orleans has renewed focus on Bourbon Street security and how barriers called bollards ...

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said that the suspect drove around "barricades" during the attack, confirming that bollards were not in place at the time.

A 2017 report by the city of New Orleans identified Bourbon Street as a potential terrorism target, citing FBI warnings and announcing the installation of bollards to protect pedestrians from ...

The bollards installed on Bourbon Street at the intersection with Canal Street in New Orleans, seen, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017, were aimed at helping prevent terrorist attacks using large trucks ...

Bollards began to malfunction shortly after the system was installed due to being clogged by Mardi Gras beads, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.

The New Orleans bollard system, part of a $40 million safety plan installed in Dec. 2017, consists of barriers at Bourbon Street intersections. The inner columns can be pushed back to allow ...

Steel barriers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street had been malfunctioning and bollards on the popular thoroughfare were down for repair ahead of a deadly attack early Wednesday morning, police said ...

New Orleans readies for Sugar and Super bowls. Its prep work on street barriers might have cost lives Officials acknowledged major defense gap and suggested beefed-up security could not have ...

National News New Orleans barriers to prevent vehicle attacks were in the process of being replaced The project to remove and replace the bollards along about eight blocks of bustling Bourbon ...

According to a report from the Associated Press, New Orleans was in the middle of a major project to upgrade barriers called "bollards" along Bourbon Street.