Governor Landry will announce next Tuesday that Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to build a multi-billion-dollar spaceport in Vermilion Parish. The Advocate reports the spaceport would be built on 130 acres of coastal marshland near Pecan Island, about 45 miles southwest of Lafayette, and would launch rockets into orbit. The p...

State Treasurer John Fleming says the K-12 School Transparency Project has identified questionable spending by Louisiana public and charter schools. The online portal launched in 2025. It allows citizens to see how public and charter schools spend taxpayer dollars and Fleming says it has uncovered potential misuse of p...

The Louisiana Department of Health says youth vaping remains a critical public health crisis in the state, and it's urging parents and teachers to talk to kids about the dangers of vaping. Taylor Reine, who oversees the division of chronic disease prevention at LDH, says kids need to know that vaping is no safer than s...

Now more than ever, be on the lookout for stalled vehicles on the shoulder of the roadway. That's because the state's long-standing "Move Over" law has now expanded. State Police Master Trooper Casey Wallace says whereas the old law applied to emergency vehicles such as police units, fire trucks and ambulance...

ULM and Louisiana Tech announced the new Radiance Technologies I-20 Showdown Rivalry Series between the two schools just 30 minutes apart. As the Bulldogs enter the Sun Belt, Tech Athletic Director Ryan Ivey says the championship spotlights a historic, heated rivalry. "Our fans know each other. They go to church w...