The Trump administration recently moved the funds into a U.S. Customs and Border Protection budget line intended for “commemorative events” related to border security, according to federal records.

Louisiana officials have been slow to identify and punish violations of federal climate laws in the Lake Charles area, according to environmental groups.

The only action Congress could plausibly take before November’s elections is a relatively toothless measure aiming to control the massive consumer electricity costs of AI.

In Louisiana, candidates for U.S. Senate and U.S. House races in the 5th and 6th districts mostly said they would not support changing the level of federal funding states receive after a disaster. But...

A company that’s expanding its liquified natural gas facility in Cameron Parish is one step away from getting a $138 million break on its local property taxes.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration faced skepticism from committee Chairman Bill Cassidy about her work on vaccine policy during the current administration, indi...

After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red.

State Rep. Mike Bayham, R-Chalmette, is proposing a special Dolly Parton license plate in Louisiana that would help fund a state literacy program for children started by the country music icon.

Major companies investing in Louisiana are looking to the state’s community and technical colleges to supply their workforce, and they are also poaching the instructors who teach there

Louisiana has upgraded its technology for issuing driver’s licenses, an improvement that Gov. Jeff Landry says will make it much faster to get a license or identification card. “We came into office wi...

Louisiana Tech University will spend nearly $2 million in public money to pay its student-athletes this year, while the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will devote $1.5 million to its sports team...

Two major players in the LNG export industry in Louisiana covered the cost of a recent restocking of redfish in coastal waters, but fishermen are skeptical about whether it will be effective. They’re ...

Farmers and timber harvesters can use off-road diesel fuel for all purposes for the next 30 days under an executive order Gov. Jeff Landry issued Wednesday.

Gov. Jeff Landry’s idea to pause U.S. diesel exports for 90 days to help bring down prices at the pump is a “misguided proposal,” according to a leading Louisiana’s fossil fuel industry group.

Louisiana has found more money to allow homeowners to upgrade their roofs to withstand hurricanes, but it will come at the cost of affordable housing.

The bill marks a major attempt to combat many of the problems facing the college sports landscape, which continues to wrestle with the fallout of the NCAA’s guidelines in 2021 allowing athletes to pro...

Residents are speaking out against the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline they say will bring risks right up to their backyards and near schools.

Two Republican state senators competing for a Baton Rouge-based congressional seat lobbed hefty allegations at one another Wednesday

Candidates in Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District agree healthcare coverage affordability is a major public concern, but they have drastically different proposals for fixing the problem.

An isolated reef off the coast of Louisiana and Texas holds within its corals a record of Earth’s history, and scientists are reading it to understand how nutrients from the Mississippi River are affe...

LSU New Orleans has reported another decline in its enrollment in its first semester back in the LSU System.

The additional days people are kept imprisoned beyond what their sentences prescribe cost more than time.

LSU students gathered Monday for a standing room-only discussion on the importance of voting with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Davis, ahead of National Voter Registration Day.

A failed candidate for mayor in a small Louisiana town faces federal charges for allegedly helping a noncitizen to register and vote in her 2024 election.

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

President Donald Trump’s controversial FBI director, Kash Patel, was a guest this week at Gov. Jeff Landry’s annual alligator hunt in the Atchafalaya Basin.

LIV Golf still owes the state of Louisiana $1.2 million after canceling a golf tournament that was supposed to take place in New Orleans in June.

The state lawmaker who pushed for the severe punishment to be made available said it’s unlikely to ever take place

Since 2024, lawmakers in Louisiana, Ohio and Kentucky have passed strikingly similar bills — backed by chemical or manufacturing trade groups — that curb the use of community-collected data in enforce...

Twelve of Louisiana’s 42 local public defender offices spent more money than they received in fiscal year 2024, highlighting the long budget struggle of public defense overall.

These projects promise economic benefits, but they also expose a familiar weakness: Louisiana’s governing systems are not built for rapid, high‑stakes technological change.

State officials and mental health advocacy groups gathered Tuesday at the Capitol Gardens to spread awareness for Louisiana’s 988 mental health hotline, coinciding with National 988 Day.

A select group of Louisiana higher ed leaders are discussing what to do with the state's marine research consortium

Louisiana law allows district attorneys to maintain a private law practice outside of their public sector job as long as they don’t do any criminal defense work. Thirty of the 42 district attorneys ha...

Inside a Baton Rouge courtroom Thursday, a lawsuit challenging arcane NCAA eligibility rules turned into a political football with prominent elected officials involved on each side.

Medication abortion has become the most common form of abortion since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, and telehealth prescriptions have continued to rise.

A crowd staunchly divided over whether the state should grant a key permit for the Hyundai steel mill planned in Ascension Parish filled every seat available Tuesday night at the Lemann Center Gymnasi...

A new Louisiana law creates the crime of unauthorized camping, which could punish the homeless with fines they can't pay or unpaid labor.

The complaint alleges that Amazon used an “invented auction participant” to drive up prices for advertising placements and sponsored product spots on its online store.

The amendment would only prevent former Govs. Bobby Jindal and John Bel Edwards from running for office again because all other former Louisiana governors are deceased.

Athletics and campus administrators from Louisiana colleges convened last week to tackle one of their biggest challenges: How to deal with the downstream financial effects in the new era of paying stu...

Louisiana officials offered SpaceX what might be one of the largest single-project tax breaks in U.S. history to cinch the $100 billion project.

This week’s announcement of SpaceX’s plans to build a rocket launchport in coastal Vermilion Parish has me recalling the heyday of space exploration just before and during my early years.

Kentucky’s measles outbreak has increased by 10 new cases, according to state data.

Following months of rumors, SpaceX confirmed Tuesday that it’s building a $100 billion self-sustaining spaceport in Vermilion Parish.

A legislative task force is staring at a growing problem with higher education in Louisiana: How to fund a system with more demands than ever before while state and federal dollars are on the decline.

They are the first confirmed measles-related deaths in the nation this year, and come amid the country’s largest outbreak of measles in decades.

Louisiana fixed the corruption it could identify within court ankle monitoring programs but left the supervision problem exactly where it found it — in the shadows.

A Louisiana teacher is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his constitutional challenge to a Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be posted in every K-12 and college classroom.