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Voters across Louisiana are headed to the polls to cast ballots in the race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

The push to relocate New Orleans residents off the former site of a toxic landfill hit a snag on Wednesday, leading to a fiery meeting between residents, city council and a law firm hired by the city to mediate the process.

A new fund in the Greater New Orleans Foundation will honor the memory of pioneer NPR news reporter and Louisiana native, Cokie Roberts, and will build a permanent funding source for radio station WWNO’s local news reporting. The “Cokie Roberts Fund for WWNO Local Journalism” was created with a leadership gift from Cokie Roberts’ family. WWNO aims to raise $1 million in additional donations for the Fund to augment the listener contributions and other revenues that will continue to be vital for the station’s service to south Louisiana.

Hosted by public media health reporter Rosemary Westwood, “Banned” will track how “the nation’s toughest abortion ban” moved through the federal court system to the U.S. Supreme Court, leading to this consequential moment in America. The podcast will also feature reporting from the Jackson Women’s Health Organization in Mississippi, the only clinic of its kind in the state.

Emergency officials are responding to an explosion that occurred at Marathon Petroleum’s Garyville Refinery on Monday morning in St. John the Baptist Parish.

Punching two more channels upriver from the Bonnet Carré Spillway could bolster habitat nearby while lessening the environmental harm caused farther south, according to a recent Tulane University study.

Louisiana became the first state in the Deep South to chart a path toward significantly cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 after passing a plan that would shift its reliance away from its familiar oil and gas economy earlier this week.

COVID-19 hospitalizations are now twice as high in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama as they were two weeks ago, contributing to now record hospitalization numbers nationwide.

Less than a week after coming into office, a Jefferson Parish School Board member who attended the Jan. 6, 2021 rally and verbally attacked opponents of former President Donald Trump in social media posts has resigned from his position.