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A state legislative auditor's review highlights shortfalls in care for incarcerated women, including a lack of free menstrual products in some facilities.
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The Louisiana Public Service Commission and Trump administration both made decisions in April that could mean more expensive energy bills for residents.
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Two bills to ban weather modification in Louisiana have quietly moved their way through the state legislature this session, as a cohort of other states have moved to do the same with technology that purports to encourage rain or alter temperature.
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has ordered multiple investigations into New Orleans’ criminal justice system after 10 men escaped from Orleans Parish Prison last Friday.
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LSU President William Tate has been named the next leader of Rutgers University in New Jersey, becoming the most notable in a string of abrupt, high-profile departures from Louisiana’s flagship public university.
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A bill that would exempt prescription drugs and insulin from state and local taxes will go before the full House Monday.
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Louisiana lawmakers are asking Congress to bring back a federal program that helped schools buy food from local farms.
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The Louisiana House on Thursday passed a budget proposal that includes funds to retain current teacher salaries. The budget still has to clear the Senate Finance Committee before it goes before the upper chamber.
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A search is underway for seven inmates who broke out of the Orleans Parish jail on Friday morning. Three other inmates who escaped have already been captured, authorities said.
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Flames ripped through the Nottoway Plantation House, destroying much of the historic structure.