Louisiana News

Just after lunchtime on April 11, traffic on U.S. 165 at Interstate 20 slowed in response to an overturned tanker filled with gasoline and diesel fuel.

A new report says commuting statistics indicate that coastal parishes are losing residents because of coastal erosion.

When Caddo Parish put together its budget last year, the juvenile justice fund had a $2.9 million deficit.

In a state that nurtures young chefs and generally exalts eating, Louisiana has been slow to adopt the national trend toward local and organic food.

Daniel Stephenson said seed from fields in Tensas Parish was used to grow the plant and confirm its resistance to glyphosate.

Cutline: Street scene near the Marche de Fer in Haiti by Richard Sexton, from 'Creole World: Photography of New Orleans and the Latin Caribbean Sphere.'

Dressed in a red-striped shirt adorned with large, white birds, Sara Simmonds, of Alexandria, expressed her joy Tuesday over the recent discovery of two whooping crane eggs in a nest in the White Lake area in Vermilion Parish.

Coastal land loss caused by subsidence and sea level rise in southeastern Louisiana is spurring the growth of a new "water management" segment of the regional economy, according to The Data Center.

New Hampshire and Louisiana lawmakers got all hot and heavy over sex laws this week - was it as good for you as it was for them? When I heard Mickey Rooney had died last week, naturally I wondered: Mickey Rooney was still alive ? Likewise, when I heard this week that New Hampshire repealed its longstanding law against committing adultery, I had a ... (more)

The 300,000 wells drilled in Louisiana are connected by tens of thousands of miles of pipelines that are vulnerable to leaks, like this one in a coastal marsh.

Efforts to raise Louisiana's minimum wage and let school teachers carry guns to work appear jettisoned for the legislative session.

East Baton Rouge Parish assistant district attorney and special prosecutor for domestic violence Melanie Fields said, "Typically in this state of Louisiana, homicides are either drug related or domestic related."

Down on the Bayou in my home state of Louisiana, there's a feeding frenzy going on.

While it might not have come as a surprise that LAGOP Chairman Roger Villere and Gov. Bobby Jindal have called for McAllister's resignation after the now infamous kissing video, many have questioned where the party was when David Vitter's name was found on the calling list of an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Vitter was not asked to resign, and ... (more)

Louisiana continues to have a strong trend of job growth, hitting a record high for the sixth month in a row in March and exceeding 2 million employed residents for the first time ever.

Back in July 2013, the Russian fertilizer maker EuroChem, in a joint press release with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, announced it was planning to build a $1.5 billion ammonia and urea complex in Louisiana.

That number hit a new peak for the sixth month in a row in March, as the state's unemployment rate held steady from February at 4.5 percent.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the rapper - whose real name is Torence Hatch - said he can't wait to get on stage Saturday at Lafayette's Cajundome and Sunday at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans.

That number hit a new peak for the sixth month in a row in March, as the state's unemployment rate held steady from February at 4.5 percent.

While there have been major improvements in Louisiana and elsewhere involving race, employment and equal rights, some feel the those improvements are not enough.