Louisiana politics have been dominated this year by new Republican Gov. Jeff Landry’s special legislative sessions to address crime and adopt new congressional maps
March 20, 2024
Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
March 26, 2024
A group of students from a New Orleans high school staged a play they developed on the steps of Louisiana's Capitol to protest a series of anti-LGBTQ+ legislative proposals
March 31, 2024
Carbon capture is turning the oil and gas industry into a critical player for mitigating climate change – while its products continue to heat up the planet.
April 01, 2024
Unlike recent years when there was an LGBTQ+ ally in the Louisiana governor's office, nothing stands in the way this year of legislation hostile to transgender people
April 23, 2024
Police in Louisiana say three officers have been wounded by gunfire in a standoff with a man suspected of shooting three other people
April 28, 2024
Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share patient information with the state and increasing funds to anti-abortion centers, while bills to loosen a restrictive ban in Louisiana face an uphill battle
April 30, 2024
A new Louisiana congressional map giving the state a second majority-Black House district has been rejected by a panel of federal judges
April 30, 2024
Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band's performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 03, 2024
Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana's near-total abortion ban
May 06, 2024
Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban
May 07, 2024
A Louisiana jury has convicted one former law enforcement officer and acquitted another in the 2022 shooting death of a man who was sitting in an SUV
May 12, 2024The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander
May 15, 2024
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May 30, 2024
The Louisiana Senate gave final legislative approval on Thursday to a bill that would make the state the first in the U.S. to reclassify two abortion-
June 10, 2024
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill to classify two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances
May 24, 2024
Louisiana's governor on Friday signed a bill making his state the first in the U.S. to classify two abortion-inducing medications as controlled substances, a category that
June 11, 2024
More than 231,000 homes and businesses in the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana and California were still without power on Friday after a series of storms battered the region over the past
July 02, 2024
Denka Performance Elastomer in Louisiana threatened to shut down if the Biden administration doesn't give it more time to reduce its emissions
May 29, 2024
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed legislation making it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties” after the officer has ordered the person to stay back
May 29, 2024
Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment
June 01, 2024
Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13
June 03, 2024
People who commit sex crimes against children in Louisiana could be forced to undergo surgical castration under legislation approved by state lawmakers, a measure that would
June 20, 2024
Scientists using new methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher than expected levels of the chemical in the air along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana
June 11, 2024
The toxic gas ethylene oxide (EtO) is detectable in southeastern Louisiana at levels a thousand times higher than what is considered safe, according to a new study.
June 28, 2024
Louisiana's highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
June 12, 2024
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the abduction and death of a 4-year-old Louisiana girl who was found in Mississippi
June 13, 2024
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom
June 19, 2024
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes the state the only one in the country to require displaying the Ten Commandments in every
July 02, 2024
A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges
June 20, 2024
Just months into office, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has gained national attention for his push for groundbreaking conservative policies
June 21, 2024
What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission
June 27, 2024
Search and rescue operation ends happily
July 01, 2024
Parents advocate against drunk driving
July 01, 2024
Special task force seizes $1 million worth of drugs, including 6,000 fentanyl pills
July 02, 2024
Officials recognize many homeless are veterans; discussions underway on plan to get funding
July 03, 2024
A federal judge has ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation
July 03, 2024
Louisiana plaintiffs ask court to temporarily block law that requires public schools to display Ten Commandments
July 08, 2024
Parents challenging a new Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms are asking a federal court to block implementation of it while their lawsuit progresses — and before the new school year starts
July 08, 2024Louisiana officials say dead pine trees are a major public safety concern
July 10, 2024Man offering $1,000 for help locating missing guide dog
July 11, 2024Shreveport man offering $1,000 for help locating missing guide dog
July 12, 2024
The truck driver who rescued an abandoned baby from the side of Interstate 10 in Louisiana this week says he first thought he might be seeing a discarded doll
July 12, 2024
2 accused of kidnapping Louisiana girls and killing one of them are indicted in Mississippi
July 12, 2024
A federal judge is reining in the use of “strip searches” by police in Louisiana's capital city
July 12, 2024In a clash over the past versus the future, some descendants of enslaved people in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a grain terminal from being built in their historic Black neighborhood
July 13, 2024What two assassination attempts in two violent elections in the 1870s warn about today
July 15, 2024Louisiana man accused in Loranger murders enters plea, state seeking death penalty
July 16, 2024
Elderly couple's mobile home flipped during Beryl
July 19, 2024
Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms, at least until November
July 19, 2024
Children ingest water beads at daycare; get medical treatment
July 21, 2024
A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse has pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts
July 22, 2024An energy group says a $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Chemical Group is economically questionable and unnecessarily increases greenhouse gas emissions
July 23, 2024Proponents of a nearly $3 billion project to restore part of southeast Louisiana’s rapidly vanishing coastline released a study Tuesday touting the expected economic benefits of the construction, even as the project faces fierce pushback and litigation from local communities who fear their livelihoods will be severely affected
July 23, 2024A volunteer-heavy effort to restore some of Louisiana’s eroding coast with recycled oyster shells was part of the scenic backdrop for a visit from the head of AmeriCorps, the federal agency that deploys volunteers to serve communities around the nation
July 24, 2024
The Lafayette Police Department has confirmed that one of its police officers was killed in the line of duty
July 26, 2024Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth are the first American beach volleyball pair to go for Olympic gold without any connection to the Golden State
July 26, 2024Former youth center guard pleads guilty to charge related to teens' 2019 suicides
July 31, 2024
Shreveport water plant not designed to process manganese
August 01, 2024A slew of legislation passed by Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature earlier this year went into effect Thursday
August 01, 2024
Former Sabine educator convicted of crime related to his students
August 02, 2024
Louisiana unveils Ten Commandments posters for public schools featuring ‘Hamilton,’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mike Johnson
August 05, 2024
New "Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights"
August 05, 2024
Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project
August 07, 2024
Longest-serving Caddo inmate gets his day in court and is convicted
August 09, 2024
Inmate dead following medical incident at jail
August 13, 2024Natchitoches police captured two escapees, one still on the run
August 18, 2024
Body of missing contractor found after explosion
August 19, 2024Oil major Shell on Monday said it plans to shut-in different portions of its Zydeco pipeline system for maintenance for three to four days starting Sept 24,
August 26, 2024
A divided federal appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit in which Tesla, the electric car company run by billionaire Elon Musk, challenged Louisiana's ban on direct
August 26, 2024
Infant, who was on the transplant list, receives a heart
August 29, 2024
The federal appeals court, often considered the nation's most conservative, said Louisiana can end a 32-year-old consent decree meant to ensure a fair chance for Blacks
August 29, 2024
New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams promised to address the city's history of prosecutorial and police misconduct
September 02, 202410-year-old in custody in Minden double homicide
September 03, 2024
Police say an 11-year-old boy is suspected of using two guns to fatally shoot a former Louisiana mayor and his daughter over the weekend
September 03, 2024Webster DA: 11-year-old is youngest ever prosecuted in parish
September 04, 2024Animal abuse increases in Louisiana
September 05, 2024Although it has been nearly four years since hurricanes Laura and Delta decimated southwest Louisiana and caused an estimated $22 billion in damage nationwide, some residents say they are still far from recovery
September 06, 2024Tropical Storm Francine forces evacuations along Gulf Coast, Louisiana under hurricane warning
September 09, 2024
Tropical Storm Francine has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane at mid-week in Louisiana
September 09, 2024
Tropical storm Francine has formed over the Louisiana coast and is expected to gain hurricane strength on Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
September 09, 2024Francine has become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico as it bears down on the Louisiana coast
September 10, 2024
FedEx said on Tuesday pickup and delivery services in some markets of Louisiana could be disrupted by the expected upheaval from Storm Francine, which is set to become the fourth hurricane
September 10, 2024
Hurricane Francine has slammed into Louisiana as a dangerous Category 2 storm, knocking out power to more than a quarter million customers and threatening a large stretch of the Gulf Coast with flooding and destructive winds
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine came ashore in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, pounding New Orleans with heavy rains and gusty winds while threatening the wider Gulf Coast
September 11, 2024
Energy production and agricultural exports out of the U.S.
September 11, 2024
Hurricane Francine made landfall Wednesday
September 11, 2024
Over 250,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana were without power on Thursday after Hurricane Francine barreled onto the state's Gulf Coast, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
September 12, 2024
Man steals Shreveport public works truck, arrested after chase into DeSoto
September 13, 2024For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico
September 17, 2024
Louisiana prosecutors have dismissed the most serious state charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene
September 26, 2024
A new Louisiana law requires abortion meds to be locked in a cabinet, even if needed for emergency care
October 01, 2024
The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies that placed polluting industries in majority-Black communities
October 07, 2024
New Orleans power outage caused by Mylar balloon, Entergy reports
October 07, 2024Louisiana’s Cajun and Creole heritage will take center stage when the Festivals Acadiens et Creoles marks a half-century of honoring and celebrating the culture through music, arts, food and community
October 09, 2024
A federal judge has heard arguments on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1
October 21, 2024
A genealogist spent years scouring historical records to trace the lives and establish the identities of enslaved people she believes are buried on the grounds of Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group's $9.4 billion facility in southeast Louisiana
October 21, 2024
Louisiana’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1
October 23, 2024
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