Louisiana

The brutal beating death of a tourist in New Orleans earlier this month is sending chills through the city during its holiday tourism season.

The Coast Guard diver who on Thanksgiving helped rescue a 28-year-old man who fell off the Carnival Valor cruise ship near Louisiana is now speaking out.

Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder informed BlackRock that his state would divest nearly $800 million from the firm's funds over its and ESG policies.

A group of nearly 20 Republican attorneys general wrote a letter to Senate leadership Monday arguing against Democrats' permitting reform legislation unveiled by Sen. Joe Manchin.

A Louisiana riverboat casino has been given approval to move onto land. The project will cost around $35 million and will create 200 new jobs.

Louisiana's long-neglected critical infrastructure systems are slated to get a major boost in federal funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

New Iberia-based Aviation Exteriors Louisiana is planning a $2.5 million expansion. They plan on offering new services such as aircraft maintenance and repair.

Workers at a New Orleans, Louisiana, Starbucks voted over the weekend to unionize and join Workers United, making it the first store in the state to form a union.

Hurricane season is coming up, but some folks in Louisiana are still fighting their insurance companies for payments after last season.

A group of U.S. senators is trying to get the federal government to hand over millions of dollars collected from China as a penalty for flooding markets with cheap products.

The White House has banned all Russian oil and gas imports, but ramping up U.S. production is not that simple. Companies not only need hundreds of thousands of dollars to get equipment back up and running, they also need the manpower.

Rodent activity and Salmonella contamination at a Family Dollar distribution center in Arkansas recently led to a recall of drugs, cosmetics, human and animal foods from 404 stores in six U.S. states

A Louisiana man allegedly attempted to hire someone to kill a business partner and is now in jail.

Nearly every ingredient used at a bakery costs more.

New Orleans has some of the strictest COVID-19 guidelines in the south, but it also relies on its multi-billion-dollar tourism industry. The city's tourism group says the reactions to the mandate have been polarizing.

President Joe Biden's administration says it has followed a court order to schedule an offshore oil and gas lease sale for the Gulf of Mexico after the Democratic president's moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands was blocked by a judge.

Scalise detailed his work to whip House Republicans to vote against both the Democrats’ infrastructure package and their "tax hike and spend bill."

Seven nursing homes in Louisiana have been ordered shuttered by the state Department of Health, according to a series of Twitter messages that the department posted Saturday night.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Friday that she is "cautiously optimistic" about energy provider Entergy's plan to restore power to all of the city by next Wednesday.

President Joe Biden toured parts of Louisiana ravaged by Hurricane Ida on Friday, using the disaster to tout his Build Back Better spending plan as an effective way to mitigate hurricane damage in the future.