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A water tower stands over downtown Tallulah in September 2025. (Photo by Elise Plunk/LAI)
By Greg LaRose
A new effort to remove fluoride from public drinking water supplies in Louisiana would allow local residents to vote on the matter, though dental professionals say it would be a step backwards in health care.
Mayday Health posted signs like this one at gas stations around South Dakota in December 2025 as part of a campaign to spread awareness about the availability of abortion pills. (Photo courtesy of Mayday Health)
By Nada Hassanein
Researchers looked at birth rates through December 2023 across a dozen states, including Louisiana, with total abortion bans implemented immediately after the Dobbs decision struck down the federal right to an abortion.
Students gather outside Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans for a walkout event, March 31, 2023, to mark Transgender Day of Visibility. (Greg LaRose/LAI)
By Aubri Juhasz, WWNO
Louisiana’s top education official is recommending that lawmakers approve a recurring increase in school funding. Under the proposal, public schools would receive $47 more per student — almost a 50% bump — to pay for employee health insurance, retirement contributions, fuel and other specific costs. If approved, it would be the first increase since 2008.
By Bobbi-Jeanne Misick, Verite
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office faced off in court Tuesday as part of an ongoing legal dispute over how much information the local jailer is required to provide federal immigration agencies about detainees in its custody.
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