Bayou Weekly

There are bottles of Tabasco on diner counters in Shreveport, in soldiers' rations and on restaurant tables in countries most Louisianans will never visit. Every one of them traces back to a low hill rising out of the marsh in Iberia Parish, where the McIlhenny family has been making pepper sauce for more than 150 years and where visitors can still walk through the place it is made. Avery Island sits a few miles inland from Vermilion Bay, and it is an island mostly in the Lou

Every Thanksgiving weekend, a good share of Louisiana points the car toward New Orleans for a rivalry game that comes with a parade and a battle of the bands attached. The 53rd Bayou Classic between Southern University and Grambling State kicks off at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 28, at the Caesars Superdome. The weekend around it now starts with a Thanksgiving Day parade downtown on Thursday and builds to the Battle of the Bands and Greek Show on Friday night. The rivalry is muc

Rendering of Meta's Data Center that is to be built on Northeast Louisiana. Meta Platforms has selected a site in Richland Parish for its...