Louisiana

A white Louisiana school bus driver who made a racist remark to a Black student about the murder of George Floyd is out of a job after the child’s mother complained to school officials

The search for survivors from a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico has closed and attention now turns to comforting the loved ones of the five known dead and eight missing, a grim hunt for bodies and a painstaking investigation that could take up to two years.

A sheriff’s office in Louisiana has issued an arrest warrant for newly signed Seattle Seahawks defensive end Aldon Smith.

With storms intensifying, rainfall increasing and sea levels rising, waterfront property owners are lifting their homes out of danger.

Divers searching the site of a capsized lift boat off Louisiana’s coast have recovered two more unresponsive crewmembers

Families were anxiously awaiting news of the 12 people missing from a capsized oil industry vessel while divers searching for survivors got no response when they knocked on the ship’s hull Thursday

The Coast Guard searched for 12 people missing off the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday after finding one dead crew member and pulling six survivors from rough seas when their commercial platform vessel capsized in hurricane-force winds.

A former sheriff’s dispatcher in a New Orleans suburb has been arrested, accused by authorities of refusing to return more than $1.2 million that had been accidentally deposited into her brokerage account

Two Democratic state senators from New Orleans will continue brawling until late April to determine who will represent a U.S. House district centered in the city

Video from the Audubon Nature Institute shows rescued cold-stunned young Kemp’s ridley sea turtles being returned to the Gulf of Mexico at Grand Isle in Louisiana on March 15, 2021.

A New Orleans high school is celebrating Grammy nominations for four of its graduates.

It’s cute, cuddled, red-haired and critically endangered — and the second Sumatran orangutan born in two years at the zoo in New Orleans

A Louisiana sheriff says there is no indication why a customer at a New Orleans-area gun store went on a sudden deadly shooting rampage that left another customer and a store employee dead.

Authorities say a person entered a gun store in a suburb of New Orleans and fatally shot two people before he was fired upon and died

In the Trump administration’s last days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a change to rules protecting alligators. Opponents say it’s an end run around the chance that Louisiana might lose a federal court challenge to California’s ban on selling alligator products.

Louisiana residents created extravagant house floats to celebrate Mardi Gras amid the coronavirus pandemic.

New Orleans’ annual pre-Lenten Mardi Gras celebration is muted this year because of the coronavirus pandemic

A 10-year-old girl kidnapped from her New Iberia, Louisiana neighborhood Sunday is back with her family thanks to the quick actions of two sanitation workers

Louisiana sanitation workers used a truck to block the escape route and call police after spotting a car described in an Amber Alert, leading to the rescue of a 10-year-old victim.