Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by ...

Doug Parish, a man living at a state-sanctioned homeless encampment located under the US-90 underpass across from Earhart ...

A Republican, Pinchback was president pro tempore of the Louisiana Senate, the state’s second Black lieutenant governor and the first Black governor in the United States, serving only 36 days.

The order deals another blow to Gov. Jeff Landry, who sought to use State Police troopers to conduct abrupt homeless ...

Louisiana lawmakers are pushing a tax package that would have low- and middle-income families subsidize tax cuts for the ...

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LSU employees allege a hostile work environment impedes investigations into sexual misconduct and discrimination.

Born in 1832 or 1833 to a white plantation owner and an enslaved Black woman, Lewis came to New Orleans from Mississippi ...

Like his older brother, clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Warren “Baby” Dodds was a musical pioneer. His instrument of choice, ...

Reporter Bobbi-Jeanne Misick talks to immigrants in New Orleans about how they experience Thanksgiving — and revisits her own ...

The day after Thanksgiving, Native American Heritage Day, offers an opportunity to reflect on the resilience, ingenuity, and ...

The temporary restraining order bars state troopers from engaging in sweeps of unhoused residents or seizures of their ...