In the far northeast corner of Louisiana, off Highway 577 in West Carroll Parish, a set of grassy ridges and mounds sits on the edge of Macon Ridge, overlooking Bayou Macon. From a pickup truck on the highway it can look like pasture. It is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America, and since 2014 it has shared a list with the pyramids of Giza and the Great Wall of China as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site is Poverty Point, named for a 19th-century

Most Louisianans have driven past Kisatchie National Forest without quite noticing it. It hides in plain sight along Interstate 49 and the two-lane highways of central and north Louisiana, broken into pieces by private land, and it is easy to mistake for one more stretch of timber country. Look closer and it is more than 600,000 acres of public land, and fall is a fine time to find that out. Kisatchie is Louisiana's only national forest, more than 604,000 acres spread across

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

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

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--Bayou Weekly Staff-- Ever since the LSU Women’s Basketball team made a historic run to win the 2023 NCAA National Championship, the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, collecting more delegates...

Kim Mulkey's LSU women's basketball team clinched a birth to the Sweet 16 Albany 2 regional after their round of 32 win over Middle...

Henry Whitehorn, who won by a single vote in November, will be the first Black sheriff in Caddo county (AP and Guardian Staff) Months...

In Louisiana’s state capitol Monday, the legislature commenced a well anticipated crime-focused special session. Republican Governor Jeff...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Under a new era of conservative leadership, Louisiana’s GOP-dominated Legislature will gather Monday for a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New obesity drugs are showing promising results in helping some people shed pounds but the injections will remain out...