Greg LaRose (Louisiana Illuminator)

More than 100 workers spent Sunday continuing the cleanup of a crude oil spill in Bayou Lafourche near Raceland, hoping to protect the drinking water supply and wildlife.

"I can’t wait to be sued,” Landry said before signing the bill that will require all public school classrooms—including those at universities—to display the Ten Commandments.

The allocations include funding for Louisiana National Guard to deploy to the U.S. border in Texas, along with raises, new equipment and dry cleaning allowances for state police.

Gov. John Bel Edwards revisited the greatest hits from his eight-year tenure as Louisiana’s leader in a farewell speech Wednesday night in his Tangipahoa Parish home.

Under a new law, more Louisiana health insurers will have to cover fertility preservation for people who undergo cancer treatment.

Landry plans to expand the use of state troopers in New Orleans but has offered few details about what their expanded role will entail.

On some issues — such as making teacher pay raises permanent (support) and raising the state tax on gasoline sales (against) — all five candidates agreed, and they predictably took party lines on other matters.

Authorities are looking for a suspect responsible for starting the Aug. 22 fire that emergency crews continue to fight.

Intense downpours brought relief from high temperatures Monday to some parts of Louisiana, but officials say it did little to reduce the threat of wildfires.

The fatality reported in St. Tammany Parish ended what had otherwise been a comparatively uneventful day elsewhere in the state.