Let’s start with what Gov. Jeff Landry got right.
It should be unquestioned that the 2019 LSU football team had the greatest college football season ever.
Is Sid Edwards fumbling the Thrive plan?
Historically speaking, Sextus Congenius Verus was nobody special.
It's time to let Chad Scott go home.
It's not often that Louisiana balks at an offer to sell its natural resources for cash.
Chris Masingill has been in Alexandria just a few weeks, and he's already a believer.
This columnist says some towns' budgets are forcing them to cut down on police.
Among many possible sobriquets, Attorney General Liz Murrill might be vying to become Louisiana's "open meetings czar."
Stop me if you've heard this story before.
Whether he likes it or not, the success or failure of East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sid Edwards' Thrive EBR plan is a referendum on his first year in office.
Maybe LSU does need a new $400 million arena.
In what must have seemed like a scene from the sitcom Parks and Recreation a Louisiana city council last month denied an alcohol permit renewal to a local creamery because it's also a church.
Among Louisiana's many quirks is a legal one: Its laws, rather than being based on English Common Law like those in the other 49 states, are instead based on the Napoleonic Code.
Friday marked the sad, inevitable end of LaToya Cantrell's political journey.
GREENSBURG — On Monday, 16-year-old Christopher Williams stood in a wood-paneled St. Helena courtroom and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Right now, Baton Rouge is a two-coach town.
Spreading across a low hill a few miles west of Leesville is a small country graveyard next to a little red brick church. Nestled among the roughly 1,400 burial plots there, near the top of th…
There are so many questions still lingering after the arrests of several central Louisiana police chiefs and others in what prosecutors allege was a brazen and clever scheme to defraud the U.S…
Last week, the U.S. Army did a good thing. But it just made a bad thing look even worse.
Buried deep in the thousands of pages of one court case, a single line of a few simple words lays bare what can happen when bad actors apparently run amok in the American health system.
The old quip about most St. Tammany residents is that they move across the Causeway and then want to blow it up behind them.
Washington Parish Sheriff Jason Smith, on the job for one year as of July 1, doesn't like the word "progressive."
In 2023, when the U.S. Department of Defense changed of the name of Fort Polk to remove the stain of honoring a Confederate, slaveholding Episcopal bishop, many in Louisiana railed against the move.
It must be easy to balance a budget when somebody else is paying some of the bills.
What will lawmakers do with their newfound cash?
There is a picture, long lost now, that used to reside on former Advocate editor Greg Garland's desk. The photo, taken during the waning days of Garland's time covering Baton Rouge city govern…
You could perhaps be forgiven for missing the May 3 election. For much of Louisiana, it was just another Saturday.
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