The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

Farmers in Louisiana are going toe-to-toe with some nasty enemies: apple snails that clog crawfish traps while laying millions of bubblegum-colored eggs and tiny bugs called delphacids that can wipe out half a rice field while spreading plant disease

Imagine opening a letter that instantly changes your financial reality. Not a storm warning, not a tax notice, but a simple sentence that hits harder than a hurricane: “Your policy will not be renewed.” For thousands of Louisiana homeowners, that sentence has become painfully familiar.

Back in 2013, the Supreme Court tossed out a key provision of the Voting Rights Act regarding federal oversight of elections. It appears poised to abolish another pillar of the law.

Authorities have arrested two teenagers in the shootings of a 6-year-old child and four others who were wounded during a parade in the small town of Clinton, Louisiana

A Louisiana sheriff says five people including a 6-year-old were wounded when gunfire erupted during a small-town parade Saturday

Louisiana governor says the shooting in Clinton is ‘absolutely horrific and unacceptable’

It is the second high-profile mass jailbreak in the state in months

Authorities in Louisiana have recaptured five of the eight inmates who escaped from the Riverbend Detention Center in East Carroll Parish during the early hours of January 30, officials confirmed on Friday. A large-scale manhunt remains underway for the three remaining fugitives, all of whom are considered violent offenders.

Major cities along the I-95 corridor, including New York, Boston and Washington, D.C., may see even more snow next weekend