The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Commission approved the expansion of black bear hunting areas from three last year to seven across the state this season. Black bear hunting has been legal for the last two years after being banned in 1987. LDWF large carnivore program manager John Hanks said tag allot...

Bill Cassidy has challenged Julia Letlow to a series of three televised debates as the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate is heating up. LSU political science professor Robert Hogan said the fact that Cassidy is suggesting this at all is a clear indication that alarm bells are going off within his campa...

The University of Louisiana System filed a lawsuit on behalf of Louisiana Tech against Conference USA Wednesday. In July, LA Tech announced plans of exiting the conference to join the Sun Belt before the 2026 football season, but the move has been delayed thanks to pushback from Conference USA and bylaws that require 1...

Governor Jeff Landry announces the state is very close to settling lawsuits against ConocoPhillips that alleged the energy company is responsible for damaging the state's coastal marshes leading to land loss. There are 42 such lawsuits pending and ConocoPhillips is named in 13 of them. Landry says coastal litigation ha...

An earthquake jolts Red River Parish early this morning. Rob Skoumal with the U.S. Geological Survey says it was a magnitude 4.9 that struck near Coushatta at around 5:30 this morning. "Certainly, thousands of people felt this earthquake. 4.9 is pretty large. We don't expect damage from this type of earthquake, bu...