Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has broken ground on a massive $2.5 billion artificial intelligence data center in West Feliciana Parish. It will consist of two, 450,000-square-foot buildings, and it will create thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Parish President Kenny Havard says this will be an economic game-changer...

LSU's presidential search committee holds its first meeting today as the 20-member panel begins its work to find a replacement for Dr. William Tate, who left in June to be the president at Rutgers. Piper Hutchinson covers higher education for the Louisiana Illuminator and she says this is a national search, but some lo...

Governor Landry is sending about 135 Louisiana National Guard soldiers to Washington, D.C. Lieutenant Colonel Noel Collins says the soldiers will be in the nation's capital for at least a month. "We're going to be in support of the D.C. National Guard and the D.C. Metro Police as well as local law enforcement. I d...

Reaction continues to pour in on the indictment of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. She's accused in an 18-count federal indictment of bilking the city out of $70,000 for trips she took with former NOPD officer Jeffrey Vappie under the guise of security, when prosecutors allege the two were covering up a romantic rel...

The tax overhaul that was passed last fall has now been a part of our lives for more than a half a year. Has it had an effect on our overall financial health? A new study commissioned by RESET Louisiana says for the vast majority, it's made an improvement. Barry Erwin, chief policy officer for Better Louisiana, says th...