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A B-52 Stratofortress deploys its drag chute while landing at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Louisiana Colleges Can Earn a Purple Star for Serving Military Students, Under Rep. Dodie Horton's Act 130

Rep. Dodie Horton's Act 130 added a military liaison, website resources, transition support and staff training to Louisiana's campus designation standards.

The Superdome roof and downtown New Orleans skyline, photographed Aug. 28, 2008, after post-Katrina roof repairs.

Your Louisiana Weekend, Nov. 7-8: LSU-Alabama, the Saints at Home and Fall Festivals

LSU-Alabama, Saints-Browns and fall festivals lead a busy weekend, with Beignet Fest in New Orleans and the Giant Omelette Celebration in Abbeville.

Friendship Oak spreads its low limbs across Friendship Circle at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, with Spanish moss overhead and a brick campus building beyond the lawn. Photo: Richard David Ramsey, Wikimedia Commons, public domain (resized).

New University Lab Schools Can Receive Per-Student State Funding, Under Rep. Kim Carver's Act 335

Act 335 lets new lab schools at University of Louisiana System campuses receive per-student MFP funding. See the Aug. 1 date limit and what stayed the same.

Politics

A red Regional Transit Authority streetcar signed "Canal" rolling down tracks in downtown New Orleans, with palm trees and buildings behind it. Photo: vxla (2010), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Rep. Shaun Mena's Act 511 Changes Meeting, Training and Audit Rules for the RTA Board

Act 511 by state Rep. Shaun Mena took effect Aug. 1, 2025. See what changed for the RTA board: meetings, training, quorum, the advisory board and audits.

The St. Martin Parish Courthouse in St. Martinville, Louisiana. Photo: Z28scrambler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Why Louisiana Has Parishes, and Who Actually Runs Yours

Every Louisiana kid learns early that the state has parishes where the rest of the country has counties. Fewer people could say why, or who actually decides when their parish road gets patched. The answer runs from Spanish colonial church records to the 1974 state constitution, and it explains why local government looks so different from one parish to the next. The word comes from the colonial era, when local life in French and Spanish Louisiana was organized around Catholic

Supreme Court to hear arguments on Louisiana congressional map

The United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., where justices are set to review the constitutionality of Louisiana's new...

Opinion

Opinion: LSU Women’s Basketball Team Can Go All the Way Again if They Drown Out the Noise - Or Let it Fuel Them

LSU's Pitching Success Relies on Consistency, Not Perfection

LETTERS: Pleased About Senate Committee Meeting

Sports

The exterior of Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge on a football gameday, with the stadium walls and surrounding plaza in daylight. Photo: WClarke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized).

Alabama Comes to Tiger Stadium at 2:30 Saturday on ABC, the First Daytime Kickoff in the Series There Since 2010

Open coastal marsh at Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Louisiana, with grass, a shallow pond in the foreground and white egrets in the distance. Photo: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

Saturday Is Youth and Veterans Waterfowl Day in Louisiana's West Zone. Here's Who Can Hunt and What to Bring

The gray concrete grandstand of Doc Elliott Stadium in Farmerville, with a painted Farmerville Farmers sign listing district and 2001 state titles. Photo: Billy Hathorn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized).

Louisiana's High School Football Regular Season Ends Saturday. Here's How the LHSAA Sets the Playoff Brackets

Culture

A single orange satsuma with a green leaf and a short stem attached, resting on a white paneled surface. Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, taken in 2012.

Satsuma Season in South Louisiana: When They Ripen and How to Pick a Good One

A large black cast-iron pot on a stand holds browned chunks of food bubbling in oil, with a metal paddle resting in it, at the 2014 Blackpot Festival at Acadian Village in Lafayette. Photo: Butterbean, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized).

The Blackpot Festival Turns 20 This Halloween Weekend at Vermilionville, With a Cast-Iron Cook-Off and a Costume Contest

The State Library of Louisiana building in downtown Baton Rouge, a gray and white multistory building with rows of glass windows and its name on a sign over the entrance, with a lamppost, trees, a hedge and a curving sidewalk across the lawn under a cloudy sky, photographed in April 2024. Photo: xiquinhosilva, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (resized).