What happens when an electric utility abandons a community? Camp owners in coastal Terrebonne Parish are finding out.

They newly-elected Louisiana Supreme Court justice helped kill the challenge in a 4-3 ruling last March. The decision by Cade Cole, a former state tax judge, raises ethics questions.

The previously-unreported Title IX probe ended with LSU suspending the football player after finding him responsible last fall for "sexual exploitation" of a former girlfriend, according to his lawsuit.

Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera drowned in his white shrimp boots after 20 years working on oyster boats around Hopedale. He was 48. “They’re all good people, really good people,” said a longtime oys...

Jeff Landry was asleep in a French Quarter hotel when his phone lit up with a call from Mayor LaToya Cantrell in the early morning hours of January 1, 2025. "This can't be good," he thought.  O...

"They’re not focusing on particular people, they're focusing on particular traits," said attorney Homero López, a former immigration judge. "Those traits tend to be physical in nature.”

Child abuse allegations, misconduct complaints, unusual probes, recusals: A Baton Rouge custody case has prompted an unusual clash among judges – and now politicians are involved.

College sports powerhouses have guarded athlete salary records from the public and their competitors, blocking open records requests.

A contractor cut down 107 trees in New Orleans that were planted by a nonprofit. Here's why it's emblematic of larger challenges in the fight against extreme heat.

The 50-year-old New Jersey native will succeed Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who submitted his retirement to the Vatican last fall but offered to stay on until the bankruptcy is resolved.

Extreme heat is a silent threat, one that experts warn could become more deadly as temperatures continue to rise.

The former LSU football coach asked the court to rehear his case and reverse their decision to award his ex-wife more than $8 million.

The state's high court said Kelly Orgeron deserves half of the former LSU coach's $17 million buyout.

Judges clocking out before noon. Lost evidence. A request for a delay in a murder case so a lawyer could attend a Mardi Gras ball. Inside Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, hearings and trial da...

Dale Dwayne Craig was 17 -- a week shy of his 18th birthday -- when he shot and killing an LSU freshman at point-blank range in 1992. The state wants to get his execution sentence restored, despite a ...

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures swallowed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, leaving behind ruin that stunned the world. Our photographers were there — in boats,

“A lot of times, people are like, ‘I don’t want to talk about it because motherhood is supposed to be all peaches and cream and roses,’” she said. “But like anything, it takes time, it takes work, it ...

Two cousins came from Guatemala to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Twenty years later they're in Louisiana ICE detention, awaiting deportation.

A federal grand jury has indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina

Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their states modeled after "Alligator Alcatraz." But the potential immigration locku...

Lurline LaBeaud-Duncan waited more than five agonizing years for justice after the murder of her son, Gregory Heisser III, and his fiancée in 2018. Here’s a look at the case, from start to finish.

New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustratio...

Ed Orgeron's lawyers warned that the ruling will have "absurd and unjust consequences with wide-ranging implications."

After Oak View Group CEO Timothy Leiweke was indicted Wednesday, LSU Athletics officials are evaluating how the charges might impact the project in Baton Rouge.

LSU had previously said they did not plan to use a public bid process to build their new arena.

The state's high court said Kelly Orgeron deserves half of the former LSU coach's $17 million buyout.

"Victims’ family members are left...waiting for finality for decades," Murrill said.

Most jails segregate their most problematic detainees. The New Orleans jail abandoned that years ago.

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Former East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden has passed away, sources confirm.

In Hessmer, Mayor Robbie Dauzat said he “thanks God" every day without a water system breakdown. “Our whole system is just a ticking time bomb waiting for something to happen.”

In prior interviews, Pope Leo XIV said he was open to a vocation to the priesthood because neighborhood priests were always in and out of his childhood, as his mother often fed them. "Now we know wh...

In the week following the plea deal, the prosecutor used his personal cell phone to make an after-hours call to his former boss, Leon Cannizzaro.

Opioid overdose is the leading cause of maternal death in Louisiana. A new statewide effort aims to change that.

"Bob Dean would have been completely protected," said one advocate about how the law change would affect nursing home companies.

What do locals think of the ICE facility in Jena? "I feel like this town has had a lot of drama," one said. "It’s put on the map for the wrong reasons."

Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced.“ At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father.

The attorney general also would get more power over death penalty cases

One of the victims was autistic and suffered from a severe mental disorder.

Eddie Lau's work has touched some of the highest levels of political office in the state. He received $4,500 this February for consulting for one of Gov. Jeff Landry’s political action committees.

Advertisements in the runoff for an open seat on the Louisiana Supreme Court show candidates Will Crain and Hans Liljeberg grilling on patios, schmoozing on sidewalks, and of course, commanding

The jury delivered its verdict in the landmark case, which sought to make Chevron pay to restore an area of coastal wetlands near Bayou Gentilly.

Defense attorneys argue it would be "unheard of in both this state and the nation" for executions to be scheduled before an inmate exhausts all appeals.

Two Louisiana men convicted in Caddo Parish of first-degree murder have dates to be executed by nitrogen gas at Angola.

A few seconds before 6:27 p.m., Jessie Hoffman jerked slightly. It would be the last significant movement Hoffman would make, in a life he’d mostly spent on death row.