Mixed messages are coming from the Department of Children and Families Services about the reorganization of its child abuse ...

Amanda Watford (formerly Hernández) covers criminal justice for Stateline. She has reported for both national and local ...

The number of state employees in Louisiana increased 5.4% from 2021 through 2024, but staffing shortages remain across most ...

Keith Ezidore had been sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for the stabbing death of  businessman Ralph Flowers in St. James ...

Cary López Alvarado, of Hawthorne, California, was nine months pregnant when she was arrested by immigration officials ...

Four attorneys who used to lead local public defender offices are suing the Louisiana government and the state public ...

Rising cost commitments for its expanding workforce, according to ULL's interim president, are part of the reason the ...

Members of the committee tasked with finding LSU’s next president have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement that ...

Thousands of people gathered at 10 events across Louisiana as part of Saturday’s national No Kings movement to protest ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed open to limiting the consideration of race in the redistricting process, a move that would ...

A Cameron Parish court has ruled that state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution when they issued a permit for a ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has summoned the Louisiana Legislature for a three-week special session starting next week to ...