Brooke Thorington

The U.S. Representative made the decision after Republicans redrew La’s 6th Congressional District, from majority-Black favoring Democrats, to one favoring Republicans.

The FDA says its investigation is still focused on Taylor Farms and that the agency did not apologize to Taco Bell or the lettuce supplier, only informing them of the false-positive test result for Cyclospora.

Converted military barracks will serve as a “first of its kind” short-term facility for self-deporting migrant families and unaccompanied children next to Alexandria International Airport at the former military base.

Louisiana and Texas political leaders and activists either fully support or wholly decry the High Court's ruling on birthright citizenship. The controversy becomes just the latest touchstone for the deepening political divide tearing at the fabric of everyday life, on the very week America celebrates its 250th anniversary.

Louisiana lawmakers approved House Bill 1, a $47 billion budget that keeps most spending at flat levels. But it did approve pay raises for state employees, judges, firefighters and the La. Department of Corrections. HB1 is now headed to the governor's desk for his signature.

This change could affect some, many or even all of the state’s more than 813,000 so-called “no party” voters from choosing major party candidates in future Louisiana primary elections.

Gov. Jeff Landry made a social media post saying that if teachers do not get a pay raise, then no one in state government will get one. It is a reference to HB1201, which would give the governor and other statewide officials raises

The joint announcement by the governor of Louisiana and the state's attorney general followed Wednesday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which struck down Louisiana’s current congressional map as "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."

The issue of professors' academic free speech attracted statewide attention in the aftermath of two LSU tenured professors who made derogatory remarks about President Donald Trump and Governor Jeff Landry. One resigned and another lost his job.

The federal grant of $1.1 Billion over 5 years will tackle greater burden of congestive heart failure, diabetes, and cancer rates in rural Louisiana.