In one of the country’s first-of-its-kind criminal indictments, a New York doctor is facing criminal charges in Louisiana after prosecutors say she prescribed an abortion pill to a young woman who was a minor.

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

Both government agencies and nonprofits in Louisiana scrambled to understand what Trump's order pausing federal grants and loans.

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

No human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in New York, but the virus has emerged among animals. Public health leaders are preparing, just in case.

January 25 was National Opposite Day, but the weather got a head start on that last week. Florida absolutely shattered its statewide snow record. New Orleans got buried in eight inches of snow as well.

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice is transferring incarcerated girls to the Ware Youth Center, with which the leader of the state office has a longstanding personal connection.

The Plaquemines LNG construction site photographed along the Mississippi River during a flyover tour with Restore the Mississippi River Delta and Southern Seaplane in Plaquemines Parish, La., Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)

Philadelphia is returning to New Orleans for the Super Bowl. The last time the Eagles were in New Orleans for the big game, things didn't go well.

Popeyes has some fans drooling over a highly exclusive new "Championship Lineup" joining limited menus for one day only in celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans next month. However, some are suggesting others "boycott" the chain in response to the options.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician and key G.O.P. vote, joined Democrats in aggressively questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick for health secretary. He did not say how he would vote.

The most powerful moment in two days of confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom President Donald Trump nominated to head Health and Human Services, came from Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy. A physician, Cassidy told Kennedy of an 18-year-old patient with hepatitis B who suffered from liver failure and needed a transplant.