Louisiana residents who rely on the largest public food assistance program won’t get those benefits next month if the federal ...

Louisiana’s child poverty rate over the past three years leads the nation, according to a new study that attributes the trend ...

Mixed messages are coming from the Department of Children and Families Services about the reorganization of its child abuse ...

The number of state employees in Louisiana increased 5.4% from 2021 through 2024, but staffing shortages remain across most ...

Keith Ezidore had been sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for the stabbing death of  businessman Ralph Flowers in St. James ...

Amanda Watford (formerly Hernández) covers criminal justice for Stateline. She has reported for both national and local ...

Five months before a new privacy law for judges took effect, a Louisiana Supreme Court justice cited it in a request to keep information about his divorce and the end of his 40-year marriage private.

Cary López Alvarado, of Hawthorne, California, was nine months pregnant when she was arrested by immigration officials ...

Rising cost commitments for its expanding workforce, according to ULL's interim president, are part of the reason the ...

Four attorneys who used to lead local public defender offices are suing the Louisiana government and the state public ...

Members of the committee tasked with finding LSU’s next president have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement that ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed open to limiting the consideration of race in the redistricting process, a move that would ...