The official curriculum for a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies was released Wednesday downplays some components that had drawn criticism from conservatives including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who said the class would be outlawed in his state

A Louisiana man is suing officials of a barrier island town over his right to fly flags emblazoned with vulgar insults aimed at President Joe Biden and his supporters

Louisiana officials have placed a new historical marker making the school integrated by Ruby Bridges in 1960 part of the state's Civil Rights Trail

Investigators say a prisoner died in a south Louisiana courthouse on Monday after grabbing a guard’s gun and fatally shooting himself in the head

5 Louisiana law enforcement officers charged with state crimes in deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene

A prisoner was shot and killed inside a south Louisiana courthouse after officials reported a struggle between the inmate and a sheriff’s deputy

The head of New Orleans's police department is retiring

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Louisiana on the last day of his visit to the U.S. Macron's office says the visit is being held to celebrate longstanding cultural ties and to discuss energy policy in the state named for France's famous Sun King Louis XIV

Eight years into a U.S. program to control damage from feral pigs, the invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment