It will take days for major floodwaters to work their way south through the Mississippi. Flooding will persist through April.

Fifth Louisiana Levee District President Reynold Minsky said he already has triggered the flood fight as Mississippi River ...

The decision halts nearly all work related to the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, which has been planned and studied for ...

As the weather gets warmer, more and more bugs will soon be buzzing about. This means that lovebugs will be remerging, and potentially gathering by the swarm during spring and summer. Lovebugs ...

The justices on Monday are taking up a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which was drawn so that, for the first time, two of its six districts have majority Black populations that ...

“Midway through this decade, neither Louisiana nor its citizens know what congressional map they can call home.” The case, Louisiana v. Callais, tees up a series of important questions that ...

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center. Arkansas was added to the ...

Currently, four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia, according to records compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center.

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. Alabama became the first state last year to specifically authorize such an execution in the US since lethal injection was first introduced in 1982. That execution ...

[The execution] was flawless. It went about as good as we can expect." Along with Alabama and Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Arkansas have approved the gas method. Arkansas approved the method ...

Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...