The Port of South Louisiana and St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Mike Tregre are facing a lawsuit that alleges they ...

The initiative comes after a new state law reclassified the reproductive care drugs misoprostol and mifepristone as ...

The fact that Jabbar’s military service has become an unfortunate focal point in some media reports, casting a negative light ...

At least 20 states and Washington, D.C., now have independent prison oversight bodies. Elsewhere, state prisons rely on other ...

The minimum wage will increase in nearly half the states this year even as the federal wage floor remains stuck at $7.25 per ...

Blue states are bracing for a battle with the Trump administration over their authority to limit tailpipe emissions, a ...

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities threaten to lock Louisiana into decades of greenhouse gas emissions, ...

A federal judge has struck down Biden’s effort to protect transgender students and make other changes to Title IX, ruling the ...

Despite both praise and criticism of President Joe Biden’s executive order banning offshore drilling in huge swaths off the ...

The New Orleans City Council launched a formal investigation into the city’s handling of its street barrier systems meant to ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

For seven months, the Louisiana Board of Ethics kept private documents about the financial interests of a handful of Gov.