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...

Wednesday night was a special night for Ragin' Cajun baseball fans as UL Lafayette defeated second-ranked LSU 7-2 in front 5,700 fans, third largest crowd in school history. Coach Matt Deggs team scored three runs in the first and never trailed. "I'm just so happy for our guys and the city of Lafayette and our uni...

A New Orleans representative is trying again with a bill that would crack down on political messaging created with the use of artificial intelligence. Democrat Mandie Landry says a bill she's filed requires any image on political material created with AI that could deceive the recipient be clearly disclosed as such. &q...

A New Orleans-area representative wants to make it a law requiring companies to make it easy to cancel automatic subscription renewals. Gretna Republican Representative Vincent Cox's bill is dubbed the "Click To Cancel Act." "Say, for instance, you do a trial membership on a streaming service or anything...

PVC producer Shintech Louisiana is expanding its Iberville Parish operations with a $3.4 billion investment. The expansion is expected to create 163 direct new jobs with an average salary over $117,000. It's expected to add 800 new job opportunities to the Capital Region, and Iberville Parish President Chris Daigle say...

Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain says the state's crawfish industry is dealing with a significant labor shortage. Strain told state lawmakers that crawfish processing plants do not have enough workers to peel and package crawfish, because the federal government has put a cap on foreign guest workers. &quo...