Voters went to the polls in three parishes Saturday to fill three vacancies in the Louisiana Legislature, deciding two runoffs in the New Orleans area and settling a four-person contest for a Baton ...

Banned in more than 70 countries, paraquat is repackaged and distributed in the United States from Syngenta’s manufacturing site in St. Gabriel.

Immediately following a Feb. 20 ruling from the full U.S. 5th Circuit of Appeals, Gov. Jeff Landry instructed schools to ...

Landry’s proposal to eliminate the state income tax is struggling to gain traction as Louisiana faces a projected budget shortfall next year.

Another case of chronic wasting disease, an always-fatal disease that infects deer, has been detected in Louisiana outside of ...

Louisiana’s university students presented their research at the State Capitol this week to demonstrate the impact of undergrad research ...

Across Calcasieu Parish, schools remain largely segregated by race, in line with a nationwide trend of re-segregation after ...

Changes in federal law will require Louisiana to spend $42.3 million more on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the coming fiscal year.

Nungesser has been an outspoken critic of Louisiana's new closed partisan primary system that is in effect for the May 16 ...

Louisiana Illuminator reporter Piper Hutchinson, joined by WAFB-TV investigative reporter Chris Nakamoto and Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne, is suing LSU to obtain records for how it spends ...

Members of the Louisiana Legislature are sinking their teeth into a proposal to open up a new recreational alligator hunting season in the state.

Holding a closed primary for just the BESE offices alongside the jungle primary next year would cost the state at least $6 ...