Joe Cunningham

BATON ROUGE, La. — The chairman of Southern University's governing board wants the system to adopt a formal dress code, pointing to policies already in place at other historically Black colleges and universities as a model.

SCOTT, La. — Every gas station warmer in Acadiana holds a lineup of boudin, and not all of it earns a spot in your cooler. Some of it comes from producers nobody in Acadiana would vouch for.

LAFAYETTE, La. — Dolly Parton, the Tennessee-born singer, actress and philanthropist known around the world as the “Queen of Country,” died Tuesday at 80, her family announced.

Dolly Parton's first-ever recording happened in Lake Charles, Louisiana, not Nashville. The full story of her Southwest Louisiana roots, dead at 80.

LAFAYETTE, La. — Louisiana is in the middle of the largest industrial building boom in its history, with tens of billions of dollars in data

ALEXANDRIA, La. — A convicted felon who used his 10-year-old child to hide a fully automatic pistol from police during a traffic stop in Pineville has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana is set to collect more than $180 million from a nationwide settlement with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over claims the platforms were built to hook children.

Louisiana's getting $180M from Meta's teen safety settlement. AG Liz Murrill calls it "remediation" — a term with no fixed spending formula attached yet.

ALEXANDRIA, La. — A federal grand jury has indicted an Alexandria man on drug and firearm charges that carry a mandatory minimum of 15 years and up to life in federal prison under the Armed Career Criminal Act.

Louisiana's industrial boom has topped $100B: Meta's $50B data center, Hyundai's steel mill, Amazon's $18B campuses, and a possible SpaceX spaceport 45 mil