Honorably discharged veterans who live in Louisiana can buy the $20 hunting and fishing combo license under Act 321. Here's who qualifies and how to apply.

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

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

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.

Act 554 by Rep. Joseph Orgeron lets Golden Meadow allow UTVs, golf carts and low-speed vehicles on shoulders of roads posted 30 mph or less. Here are the rules.

Act 821 by state Rep. Mike Johnson of House District 27 renames school crisis plans, sets drill rules and keeps occupied classrooms locked. What changed.

Louisiana's recreational alligator season ends Oct. 31. See how the lottery, $25 license and tagging rules work, and the two 2026 laws behind it.

Things to do in Louisiana Oct. 24-25: LSU at Auburn at 11 a.m. on ABC, Rougarou Fest in Houma, the French Food Festival in Larose and more festivals statewide.

Louisiana's first black-bellied whistling duck season ran Oct. 3-11. Permit holders must report by Oct. 26, and duck season opens Nov. 14 in the West Zone.

At 7 o'clock on Christmas Eve, if the wind cooperates, fire chiefs in St. James Parish give the signal and dozens of wooden towers along the Mississippi River levee go up in flames at roughly the same moment. The heaviest concentration is in Lutcher, Gramercy and Paulina, with a scattering of fires in neighboring Ascension and St. John the Baptist parishes. In 1999 there were more than 100 bonfires along a 3.4-mile stretch of levee in those three St. James communities, geogra

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

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced today that Louisiana Citizens will provide an additional 30 days...