The Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services needs to better scrutinize the amount of money it pays to foster ...

There are more than 1,000 people in Louisiana like Gray, convicted by split juries and still imprisoned, according to the ...

Summer heat is bearing down on U.S. prisons, where temperatures in uncooled cells can climb well into the triple digits.

The battle for partisan advantage in Congress places Democratic and others who support curbs on gerrymandering in an ...

NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell made history — becoming the city’s first mayor to be indicted while in office — after ...

Changes Louisiana lawmakers made to state tax policy last fall will reduce the overall burden on most households by ...

Cantrell’s indictment comes 11 years after the conviction of former Mayor Ray Nagin, who accepted bribes from businessmen ...

Bogalusa, with 10,000 residents, has seen dozens of shootings and a violent crime rate approaching twice the national average ...

Fast tracking a vote that was expected to happen in October, utility regulators will vote Wednesday on a power plant for Meta ...

Since Robert F. Kennedy vowed to nail down the cause of autism, he has eliminated federal researchers looking at potential ...

Wetlands in the New Orleans area harmed by the now defunct Mississippi River Gulf Outlet are a step closer to getting a ...

The committee tasked with finding LSU’s next president will hire Louisiana firm SSA Consultants to guide its search ...