Gov. John Bel Edwards

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.

Edwards has faced a pandemic, six hurricanes, catastrophic flooding, drought, a crippling state budget shortfall, two police brutality controversies and more.

The results of Louisiana’s most recent elections might suggest it’s always been a deep-red state. But the stronghold Republicans have in Louisiana is relatively new.

The Biden administration opened the first-ever leases for offshore wind in the Gulf of Mexico up for bid on Tuesday off the coasts of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas.

Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a state of emergency in Louisiana on Friday as record-breaking heat continues to create dangerous conditions across much of the South.

Louisiana broke ground on a nearly $3 billion coastal restoration project that aims to rebuild the broken marshes on Plaquemines Parish’s west bank by reconnecting the area to the land-building power of the Mississippi River.

After long-awaited updates to Louisiana’s building code, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday that the state will receive more than $1.6 million to implement them and build more energy-efficient houses that will be more equipped to survive hurricanes.

The Environmental Protection Agency kicked off a three-day public hearing in Baton Rouge on Wednesday as they consider granting the state control over permitting wells used to inject carbon underground.

Louisiana’s top coastal restoration official declared his plans to resign during a speech at one of the state’s largest coastal conferences on Wednesday. Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority chairman Chip Kline marks the latest of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ appointees to step down from their position as the Democratic governor’s term nears its close in January 2024.

After seven years at the helm, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Environmental Quality announced his resignation last week as Gov. John Bel Edwards’ term nears its close.