Waste has been stored and recycled at other sites, but LDEQ grants an emergency exemption for River Birch.

A task force Gov. Jeff Landry assembled is recommending that Louisiana’s colleges and universities join six other university systems from Southern states in a new conservative accrediting body.

Ten people were arrested earlier this month for alleged immigration violations during a joint state and federal patrol of oyster beds in St. Bernard and Terrebonne parishes.

The Clinic NOLA will offer many of the same services as the now-shuttered Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.

The Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center appears to have been operating well over its contracted capacity since April.

National Nurses United has been negotiating new staff contracts with UMC administrators since March 2024. This is the fifth strike in just over a year.

Undue Medical Debt partnered to pay off debts for more than 123,000 people across Orleans Parish. Now, the nonprofit warns that the issue could soon get worse.

Lawmakers passed legislation in the spring to move UNO from the Louisiana University System back to the LSU system, where it had been from its founding until 2013.

Louisiana is suspending its temporary assistance program that would provide November funds to most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients in the state amid the ongoing government shutdown.

The practice is called community, citizen or participatory science, and it involves data collected from non-scientists that’s passed along to researchers who use their expertise to study and understand what they mean