RFK Jr. vowed to find environmental causes of autism, then ended research trying to do just that BY: Sharon Lerner, ProPublica - August 20, 2025 Erin McCanlies was listening to the radio one morning ...

Trump-fueled LNG boom has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge BY: Pam Radtke, Evan Simon and Jeffrey Bassinger, Floodlight - August 20, 2025 For more than a decade, Rebekah Hinojosa has fought ...

District maps for seats in the Louisiana Legislature violate the federal Voting Rights Act, a panel of judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Their decision upholds a lower court ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear new arguments in a Louisiana case that could have ripple effects for congressional redistricting around the country.

They concede there’s only so much they can do to keep Texas from redrawing its maps, but they want to encourage blue states to retaliate.

Health Care An aspiring Louisiana pilot can’t fly with sickle cell disease, so he’s editing his genes Daniel Cressy will be the first patient in Louisiana to complete the gene therapy treatment for ...

A recent proclamation from President Donald Trump will allow 25 chemical manufacturers, including 12 with sites in Louisiana, to ignore new federal rules meant to contain harmful emissions. A week ago ...

Louisiana is one of 30 states with criminal penalties related to HIV exposure. Most were created in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic.

Criminal Justice Govt + Politics Trump administration pulls back on work combating human trafficking, long a top GOP priority As Republicans reel from the fallout surrounding accused sex trafficker ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain access to an unmarked slave cemetery on the property of a petrochemical ...

Though states differ in how they now regulate wetland areas, law changes in three states and counting all have the same goal: more development.

A federal appeals court struck down a Louisiana law Friday that requires schools to display the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom.