The Louisiana Legislature could soon change campaign finance laws, creating new political committees and raising the bar for ...

A significant weather event is unfolding this week as a massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is heading toward the ...

Tim Gioe, who was befriended and abused by a priest as a child, hopes other states are inspired to adopt similar laws.

Louisiana lawmakers have for the third consecutive year rejected a bill that would have added some rape cases to the narrow ...

Louisiana lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a set of dramatic changes to state ethics laws Wednesday that will make it much ...

The legislature has changed the state’s legal definition of wetlands, leaving doubt over whether permits will be needed to ...

In the wake of new political battles over workers’ rights—including President Trump’s recent executive order curbing ...

Brian T. Owen, 52, of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, has been sentenced for money laundering. United States District Judge S.

The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Indigenous tribes. The Chitimacha Tribe, the Coushatta Tribe of ...

Overton was the son and grandson of jurists and his great-grandfather had been a justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court ...