The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

The number of incumbents running in this year’s state executive elections—20—is the fewest in the past four cycles for these offices. These are the 36 executive positions that voters decide in three states—Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi—in the year prior to each presidential election.

Environmental advocates and residents of the Louisiana chemical corridor known as Cancer Alley have spent decades calling for change in the way industrial activity is regulated there

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, Europe has been forced to find an alternative to Russian gas, which it relied heavily on. The European Union has turned to liquefied natural gas, or LNG. Last year, the United States became the number one exporter of LNG and that trend has…

Eight candidates are running in the all-party primary for Louisiana Secretary of State on Oct. 14, 2023. Incumbent Kyle Ardoin (R) is not running for re-election.

A Louisiana company will relinquish the last remaining oil and gas lease on land near Montana’s Glacier National Park that’s sacred to Native Americans

Joseph Tokosh resigned from Nicholls State University in March after reports emerged that he was requesting face paint images from his students

Welcome to the Friday, September 1, Brew. 

After her grandparents spoke to her about her hygiene, Carrington Harris reportedly ‘began damaging property inside the house and then turned the power off from outside’

Welcome to the Thursday, August 31, 2023, Brew. 

The descendants of Ann Joice, separated as part of the sale of 272 people, are at the center of a vital new work

A court decision against a Louisiana man who made a COVID joke illustrates the continuing influence of a misbegotten, century-old analogy that is frequently used as an excuse to punish or censor constitutionally protected speech.