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Louisiana lawmakers approve regulations on THC products. Here are the new rules.

After an effort to ban hemp-derived THC products in Louisiana failed last week, state lawmakers have given final approval to a bill that would add new regulations to the booming $33 million industry.

Nyx captain speaks to TV station after losing New Orleans parade permit. What'd she say?

Stormy Daniels adds 2nd night to sold-out New Orleans comedy show after Trump conviction

3 men parade taped-up alligator around New Orleans. Police need help finding them.

LSU baseball vs. North Carolina: How to watch Monday's massive Chapel Hill regional final

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — LSU baseball is one win away from hosting another super regional at Alex Box Stadium.

New Orleans valedictorian lived in a homeless shelter as he rose to the top of his class

From a New Orleans homeless shelter to the top of his high school class, Elijah Hogan has already conquered much in life.

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Louisiana sugar cane farmers want a stalemated Congress to pass the Farm Bill. Here's why.

WASHINGTON — Vermilion Parish sugar cane farmer Kyle Zenon put on his Sunday church suit to …

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Louisiana Legislature passes state budget with extra cash for police and cuts to early ed

Louisiana lawmakers on Sunday signed off on the state’s spending plan for the next fiscal ye…

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Seafood restaurants, fishermen say Mary Mahoney’s guilty plea is sign of industry trouble

This story was first published in the Sun Herald. Read more here.

Curious Louisiana

Why do we pronounce 'Orleans' in different ways? The answer, like the word, varies.

In New Orleans, there are certain things that are simply accepted, no questions asked.

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See inside the New Orleans Six Flags site for first time in years. Here are next steps for revival.

The two-story, whitewashed theater, with its Greek columns and round stage, occupies a lonel…

Local Politics

Louisianans can get caught under crushing OMV debt. A proposed law could fix that.

Gayl Payton was stunned when she recently learned that she owed the Louisiana Office of Mot…

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Brady Marget, Teo Banks agree Tulane primed for another step forward in 2025

The disappointment of a 17-7 elimination loss to UC Irvine in the Corvallis regional did not damper their enthusiasm about the direction of the program under second-year coach Jay Uhlman.

LSU women's basketball schedules Dec. 19 homecoming game in Chicago for Aneesah Morrow

The LSU women's basketball team announced Monday that it will play a nonconference game Dec. 19 at Illinois-Chicago, a homecoming for All-Southeastern Conference forward Aneesah Morrow.

LSU baseball score vs. North Carolina: Live updates from Monday's Chapel Hill regional final

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — LSU baseball is on the verge of pulling off a massive comeback.

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Jeff Landry, other Republican governors call for less regulations on energy production

Gov. Jeff Landry joined a group of his Republican colleagues from other states on Monday to call for fewer federal regulations on domestic energy production, using a Chalmette refinery as a backdrop.

100 new jobs coming to St. Tammany as $46M cold storage facility construction starts

Construction is set to begin on a massive, $46 million cold storage facility in Pearl River that promises 100 new jobs.

In push to bolster homes in face of intensifying storms, many Louisianans fall through the cracks

In a lull during the school day last fall, Austin Ferretti sat in front of his computer in his classroom and methodically refreshed his browser.

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The Last Days of Isle de Jean Charles

When Native Americans settled on Isle de Jean Charles in the early 1800s, it was less an isl…

New analysis shows 740 chemical sites in Louisiana are at risk from storms. Are they ready?

For days after Hurricane Ida, Chandra Straw’s New Orleans neighborhood was choked by waves o…

Louisiana 2050: Rising seas will upend life. Time is running out to limit the impact.

A special report from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate examines Louisiana's perilous future…

Watch: What's Louisiana's future by 2050 with rising sea levels, land loss?

Louisiana 2050: Rising sea levels will upend life and bring new risk to the state over the n…

Julie Lea, the controversial captain of the Mystic Krewe of Nyx, didn’t appear at the New Orleans City Council meeting on May 16, when the parading organization she’d founded in 2011 was cut from the Carnival lineup. Nor did she speak to the press immediately after the announcement.

Estate sales can turn unwanted stuff into cash. Here's what to know about having one.

Ten years ago, while clearing out my parents’ home of 50 years, I had no idea what I was getting into, let alone what I was doing. I had never been to an estate sale, and now I was going to have one.

Do you recall this 1960s New Orleans lakefront lounge shut down for illegal drinking, gambling?

Like the beer and the Barq’s that once flowed from its myriad dockside restaurants, memories of West End’s storied past continue to flood in from readers transported by recent columns about its heyday as a New Orleans entertainment mecca.

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Clancy DuBos: A Jeff Landry mandate? Far from it

Gov. Jeff Landry had tried to justify his authoritarian power grabs and extremist impulses by suggesting Louisiana voters gave him a mandate last Oct. 14. Such myth-making is beyond exaggeration; it’s a lie.

Letters: Name of Dixie beer should have never been changed

I am writing in regard to the Dixie beer article. One of the main reasons Dixie failed is that many Dixie beer drinkers were insulted with the name change.