The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

Just a week after taking office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order prioritizing environmental justice

Upcoming horror film 'Goons' adds talented actors to its cast in Louisiana. Director Gerard McMurray leads the project set in eerie locations.

The Democratic National Convention transformed what should have been the driest part of the evening — the roll call — into a party, featuring lively music and several celebrity appearances

Rapper NBA YoungBoy has agreed to plead guilty to a federal weapons charge once the case is transferred from Louisiana to Utah, where he faces unrelated charges accusing him of running a prescription drug fraud ring

Hudson Mobley, 17, receives certificate signed by Biden for using defibrillator to resuscitate man dying on golf course

Public health experts from some of the nation’s leading research universities have deployed a massive medical trailer to rural parts of the South as part of an ambitious and unusual new health study

Abortion rights supporters have warned that they anticipate ongoing reproductive health battles in Texas and beyond

Soaring car insurance premiums are squeezing American wallets, forcing many to reconsider if owning a car is still affordable.

A federal judge is ordering officials at Louisiana’s penitentiary to increase shade and take other steps to protect prisoners doing agricultural labor from dangerous heat

LNG exports responsible for $957m in total annual US health costs, says new Greenpeace and Sierra Club report

Most Americans will remember 2020 as the year when the pandemic changed everything. But for Lake Charles, Louisiana, and its neighbors along the Gulf Coast, it was also the year of record-setting disasters, when “once-in-a-lifetime” storms hit in such rapid succession that their impacts blurred together.