By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
It’s one week until Election Day and the final day of the early voting period. Gov. Jeff Landry and first lady Sharon Landry will cast their ballots this morning near their home in Youngsville.
Michael Wolfe waves American flags at the entrance of City Park in New Orleans, one of several busy intersections in the city where the No Kings movement encouraged people to rally Saturday, Oct. 17. 2026, to raise awareness for the Nov. 3 election. (Photo by Greg LaRose/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Greg LaRose
An unspecified number of election monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice will be sent to Louisiana for the Nov. 3 election, but an agency spokesman said the deployment is nothing out of the ordinary and similar to measures it has taken for decades in previous elections.
The marquee on Frank’s Theatre in Abbeville welcomes SpaceX at an event to announce the company’s Spacebase Louisiana project in Vermilion Parish on Aug. 25, 2026. (Photo by Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator)
By Drew Hawkins, Gulf States Newsroom
Two Vermilion Parish government bodies violated Louisiana’s Open Meetings Law when they approved key pieces of SpaceX’s $100 billion spaceport near Pecan Island, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by a nonprofit and parish residents.
Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom
By Julie O’Donoghue
Four out of five candidates at a 5th Congressional District election forum Monday said they were opposed to abortion rights, while only one said he would oppose a national abortion ban if elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Amanda Watford
New research findings suggest that improved street lighting may help cities reduce violence in targeted areas, but that infrastructure upgrades alone may not be enough to sustain those gains.
By Sofia Resnick
Most state laws that prohibit or regulate abortion seek to penalize those who provide abortions, not the women who undergo them. Nevertheless, researchers from Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit group that supports abortion rights, found specific allegations related to obtaining, seeking to obtain or researching how to get an abortion.
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