The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

The Biden administration has designated four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts for development of wind energy

School officials in three states are effectively immune from lawsuits over excessive corporal punishment. A Louisiana mother is asking the Supreme Court to step in.

Louisiana congressman told audience at 2013 anti-abortion event Americans should live by 250-year-old religious and moral values

Encroaching water from the Mississippi River has necessitated more thorough disinfecting, which leaves behind dangerous chemicals

Donald Trump’s daughter could appear on witness stand in New York civil fraud trial as early as next week

When Louisiana passed a law in August 2023 requiring public schools to post “In God We Trust” in every classroom – from elementary school to college – the author of the bill claimed to be following a long-held tradition of displaying the national motto, most notably on U.S. currency.

In November 2023, voters will elect five of the 105 state financial officerships (SFOs) nationwide (4.8%). Two auditor positions (Kentucky and Mississippi) and three treasurer positions (Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi) are on the ballot. Republicans currently hold all five positions.

The student driver and her instructor Gisela Chevalier survived the 168-car Louisiana pileup on Monday that killed eight people

There was some worrying news for Volodymyr Zelensky this week when the US House of Representatives finally elected a new speaker. Mike Johnson, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, has consistently opposed US funding for the Ukrainian war effort. Now he’s the second most powerful man in US politics behind the…

‘Homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic,’ Mike Johnson wrote in 2004

Mike Johnson was elected as House speaker after three other candidates were unable to secure enough votes.