More child deaths possibly linked to abuse and neglect in Louisiana have been investigated so far this year than in all of 2025, and the number of proven fatal incidents is on pace to surpass last year’s count according to the state’s child welfare agency. 

University leaders are considering setting up economic development districts, like one LSU recently created around its Baton Rouge campus, that would give their school access to sales tax revenue already being collected.

Louisiana has the highest rate of poor military veterans in the nation with more than 22,000 former service members living below the poverty line, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and Veterans Administration data. The analysis from Vettory.org, an information platform for veterans and low-income households, found 8.1% of Louisiana’s estimated 278,000 veterans […]

Gov. Jeff Landry said he won’t personally talk to New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno until after an investigation determines who was behind the July indictment of Attorney General Liz Murrill. 

Louisiana lawmakers have partially restored funding for the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans that Gov. Jeff Landry removed from the state budget in June.  The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget approved $1 million Thursday for the music school and venue that provides programming to children in struggling communities. Lawmakers had originally […]

Louisiana lawmakers signed off Thursday on a 10-year, no-bid contract worth $192.6 million to provide public safety equipment and technology for law enforcement and the prison system.

A new survey on civic life in Louisiana has found that while Louisianians are more interested in politics than the rest of the country, they are less politically polarized.  The Louisiana Common Ground Survey was published Wednesday by the LSU Reilly Center for Public Affairs and the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, a nonprofit […]

A decline in international students at American universities is attributable, in part, to Trump administration immigration policies, according to a new analysis, and that loss could cost the U.S. more than $3 billion, including $23 million for Louisiana alone.   The Association of International Educators based its economic impact calculations on data colleges provided in response […]

Social media giant Meta gets to keep records for its projected $50 billion data center secret after state utility regulators overturned a judge’s order to make them public.  The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted 3-1 Wednesday to overrule its administrative judge’s order that required Meta to disclose how it calculated publicized job projections and electricity […]

The Louisiana Public Service Commission will decide Wednesday whether Meta can keep its records on its artificial intelligence data center project in Richland Parish secret from the public.  Environmental and consumer groups have pressed state utility regulators to require Meta provide more information about its massive data center taking shape at its Hyperion campus in […]