A proposal to remove state school board elections from Louisiana’s closed party primaries has advanced in the Louisiana ...

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.

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

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

Marta is an award-winning education reporter who spent more than 11 years with The Lens, New Orleans' first nonprofit investigative news organization. Her work was critical in holding schools ...

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

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

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 ...

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