By Piper Hutchinson | Reporter
School might be done for the year at Louisiana’s college campuses, but there’s still activity in the classroom.
A Ten Commandments sculpture is on display in front of city hall June 27, 2001, in Grand Junction, Colorado. (Michael Smith/Getty Images)
By Piper Hutchinson
Days after most Louisiana university students left campus for the summer, schools across the state began posting the Ten Commandments in vacant classrooms.
A bill the Louisiana Legislature approved could help state Rep. Steven Jackson, D-Shreveport, get out of a $1,000 ethics fine. (Allison Allsop/LAI)
By Julie O’Donoghue
The Louisiana Legislature unanimously approved a bill last month that could allow at least one of its members to dodge a state ethics fine.
Hunting expansion and privacy legislation enjoyed popular support during the 2026 Louisiana legislative session. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries photo)
By Elise Plunk
Hunters and fishers in Louisiana now have expanded privacy after state lawmakers approved bills to exempt information about them from public records laws.
By Bobbi-Jeanne Misick & Robert Stewart, Verite
The New Orleans immigration court appears to be one of the latest to dramatically increase the number of hearings immigration judges oversee each day – a new tactic by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice to accelerate deportation decisions.
By Ariana Figueroa
A Louisiana detention center that houses roughly 1,500 immigrants failed to ensure sanitary conditions, properly store perishable food, properly notify use-of-force incidents and maintain medical records of detainees, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog.
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