By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
How will Louisiana’s public universities keep up with the growing cost of doing business in the new landscape of college sports? Our story looks at one option now available to more schools after a change in state law.
Louisiana Tech linebacker Trey Baldwin and defensive lineman Levi Bell play against Southeastern Louisiana at Joe Aillet Stadium in Ruston on Sept. 11, 2021. Tech won 45-42. (Emerald McIntyre/Louisiana Tech University)
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Nearly every athletic department at Louisiana’s public universities is bleeding money, impacting the fiscal health of the rest of the school. In a search for a solution, campus leaders are considering economic development districts, like one LSU recently created, to give their school access to sales tax revenue already being collected.
As of this week, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has opened more investigations into suspect child abuse and neglect fatalities than in all of 2025. (Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
By Greg LaRose
More child deaths possibly linked to abuse and neglect in Louisiana have been investigated so far this year than in all of 2025, and the number of proven fatal incidents is on pace to surpass last year’s count according to the state’s child welfare agency. National trends on child maltreatment mirror Louisiana numbers, which have climbed every year since 2020 with the exception of 2024.
Louisiana health officials confirmed Wednesday a resident was hospitalized after recently being infected with Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba that feeds on brain tissue. (Jack Forrest/Indiana Capital Chronicle)
By Wes Muller
The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed a resident was infected with Naegleria fowleri, a pathogen that feeds on brain tissue. Infections are extremely rare but almost always fatal. The patient likely acquired the infection while swimming in a North Louisiana lake shortly before the illness, according to LDH.
By Kelsey Moseley-Morris
A federal judge issued an order Wednesday blocking U.S. Health and Human Services from implementing sweeping changes to grants under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program while a lawsuit proceeds. But dozens of existing grants that were canceled this summer will remain so for now, unless the Trump administration chooses to reinstate the funds.
By Robbie Sequeira
New housing projects can sometimes stall out as a developer applies to city or county planning boards and goes through cycles of inspections, reviews and approvals. Now, cities are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to address one of the most persistent sources of housing permitting delays: incomplete applications. And two new streams of federal money aim to help them.
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