People with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

A federal judge’s finding that extreme heat in Texas prisons is unconstitutional could lead to the state being ordered to spend billions to install air conditioning to cool them off.

The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district.

A Columbia University student arrested and threatened with deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel gave his first public statement, saying that his detention is indicative of “anti-Palestinian racism” demonstrated by both the Trump and Biden administrations.

Louisiana has used nitrogen gas to put a man to death, marking the first time the state has used that execution method.

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday.

A Louisiana woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy.

A federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas.

The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community.

Alabama in 2024 became the first state to carry out a nitrogen gas execution.

Powerful storms have killed two people in Mississippi, torn the roofs off an apartment building and a nursing home in Oklahoma and threatened communities across the nation.

Thousands of revelers in outlandish costumes filled the streets of New Orleans as the city celebrated Mardi Gras Day despite the threat of storms.

The 2025 Carnival Season -- marked by a weekslong pre-Lenten bash and complete with colorful parades, shimmery beads tossed from floats and streets lined with costumed revelers -- is reaching its conclusion on the Gulf Coast.

The Louisiana Department of Health “will no longer promote mass vaccination.”.

A Texas judge has fined a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas in one of the first challenges in the U.S. to “shield laws” enacted in Democratic-controlled states where abortion is legal.

As temperatures climb into the upper 70s and low 80s, a cold front is on the move, bringing a chance of strong to severe storms.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed a bill to shield the identities of doctors who prescribe abortion medications, days after a physician in the state was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in Louisiana.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs have landed in New Orleans for Super Bowl week.

Police said the man, believed to be in his 20s, recently moved from Louisiana to Houston just two days ago, so it’s unclear why he was shot to death.

Southern cities largely unfamiliar with snow and ice are getting creative in their efforts to clean up from this week's winter storm.

A deep freeze and rare snow have brought most things to a standstill from parts of Texas to Florida, but experts say wildlife natives like cypress trees and prairie plants, and cold-blooded gators and snakes, should be alright.

A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before.

The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported.

The city of New Orleans and local community groups are offering PlayStations to people willing to turn in guns.

Friday is calm, but we have yet another chance for a few severe storms on Saturday.

Parts of Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas are under severe weather watches as the National Weather Service predicts a storm system in the Gulf of Mexico could bring high winds, hail and possible tornadoes to the region.

An appeals court in Louisiana has ruled that Nasdaq can’t require diversity on the boards of companies that list on the exchange.

A federal judge in Utah has sentenced Louisiana rap artist NBA Youngboy to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges after he acknowledged having possessed weapons despite having a felony conviction.

Republican Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming announced on Wednesday that he will be running for U.S. Senate, hoping to unseat GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who is up for reelection in two years.

Facebook’s parent company Meta says it will build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in northeast Louisiana.

Louisiana voters will decide the fates of four proposed amendments to the state constitution, in what will be the final statewide election of 2024.

A Houston Police Department cruiser was involved in a crash early Tuesday morning at 700 Congress near Louisiana Street.

Louisiana’s GOP-dominated legislature passed tax cuts on personal and corporate income on Friday in exchange for a statewide sales tax increase.

Louisiana Attorney General Elizabeth Murrill says the state will ask a federal appeals court to quickly stay a lower court's order declaring unconstitutional a law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1.

A caged tiger was wheeled onto the Tiger Stadium field for the first time in nearly a decade before kickoff of Saturday night’s game between No. 14 LSU and No. 11 Alabama.

The House is expected to try next week to pass a Social Security-related bill to ensure benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions.

CenterPoint Energy has announced that it is monitoring the potential impacts of Hurricane Rafael across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

The Supreme Court is taking up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.

Louisiana’s new law categorizing two widely used abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances is being challenged in a state court lawsuit by a physician, a pharmacist, two women who had difficult pregnancies and others.

It's time to move clocks back on Sunday.

It is official.

A genealogist spent years scouring historical records to trace the lives and establish the identities of enslaved people she believes are buried on the grounds of Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group's $9.4 billion facility in southeast Louisiana.

Gov. Jeff Landry confirmed his support on Tuesday of restarting the tradition of bringing Louisiana State University’s live tiger mascot onto the football field ahead of home games.

Louisiana will become the first in the United States on Tuesday to categorize two widely used abortion-inducing pills as “controlled dangerous substances.”.

Louisiana prosecutors have dismissed the most serious state charge in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene.

For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico.

Residents of the Carrollton neighborhood in New Orleans are among the thousands of utility customers in the city who remain without power after Hurricane Francine passed through.

The Houston Food Bank is standing by to assist their food bank network in Louisiana.

The category one hurricane will hit Louisiana Wednesday afternoon

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Francine has officially made landfall in south Louisiana Wednesday.

Extreme weather is again striking multiple places around the world, including wildfires in California, a hurricane that threatens Louisiana, drought and wildfires in the Amazon and flooding in Nigeria.

Galveston County Judge Mark Henry shares what the county is doing amidst impacts from Hurricane Francine.

According to the National Hurricane Center, there is also the possibility of a life-threatening storm surge in portions of coastlines in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Hurricane Francine has slammed into Louisiana as a dangerous Category 2 storm, knocking out power to more than a quarter million customers and threatening a large stretch of the Gulf Coast with flooding and destructive winds.

All eyes have been on the Gulf this week with Francine now expected to make landfall in Louisiana Wednesday.

CenterPoint Energy provided an update on the company’s preparation efforts in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi ahead of Tropical Storm Francine.

We are tracking scattered showers across Southeast Texas Tuesday.

"We expect that for Bolivar especially, there might be water coming over the top of [highway] 87," Judge Mark Henry said. "So if that’s going to be inconvenient or certainly life-threatening for you, you might want to relocate for a day or two."

Beautiful Monday before a potential tropical storm moves north along the Texas coast increasing flooding rain and tropical force wind potential.

FEMA is monitoring Tropical Storm Francine as it rapidly approaches southeast Texas and portions of Louisiana, bringing heavy rain, flooding and life-threatening storm surge.

Here's the impact we're expecting in the Houston and Galveston areas.

Tropical Storm Francine has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane at mid-week in Louisiana.

The National Weather Service says a tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane.

Tropical Storm Francine formed and was named Monday morning.

No food tour is complete without a stop in H-Town. Louisiana Fish Fry is on a quest to find the best fried chicken sandwich in the country. Houstonian Rashad Jiles competed in their competition last month and came out on top. He's sharing his recipe with us before he takes his sandwich to New York for the national round.

Jaleen Anderson’s mom is on a quest for details about her son’s death in a Louisiana prison that houses hundreds of Harris County inmates awaiting trial.

Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project.

The team made a valiant comeback effort, but won't be headed to the Little League World Series

Ariel Anderson, 26, faces a kidnapping charge in Harris County, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office confirms.

The family of a 12-year-old girl whose disappearance prompted an Amber Alert says she has been found alive.

A volunteer-heavy effort to restore some of Louisiana’s eroding coast with recycled oyster shells was part of the scenic backdrop for a visit from the head of AmeriCorps, the federal agency that deploys volunteers to serve communities around the nation.

The Splendora Police Department said an officer pulled over a vehicle Saturday night for a minor traffic violation.

Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms, at least until November.

The New Orleans-based court, which hears Texas cases, is pushing the federal judiciary to the right, even when it gets overturned by a higher court.

A Louisiana judge says the Biden administration can't delay consideration of projects aimed at exporting liquefied natural gas while a legal challenge plays out in federal court.

Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana.

What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission.

A 17-year-old from Louisiana drowned while swimming in rough surf near 25th Street, west of the Galveston Historic Pleasure Pier.

Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick is blasting his political opponents for letting Louisiana become the first state to require public schools and colleges to display the Ten Commandments.

Just months into office, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has gained national attention for his push for groundbreaking conservative policies.

A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom.

A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions.

A lawsuit challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday.

The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority.

As Downtown Houston continues to rebuild in the aftermath of last month’s derecho, the city has provided an updated list of which streets have reopened and which ones remain closed as repairs persist.

Civil rights attorneys say a new Louisiana law that makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet of a police officer under certain circumstances is an affront to the movement for racial justice and violates the First Amendment.

Denka Performance Elastomer in Louisiana threatened to shut down if the Biden administration doesn't give it more time to reduce its emissions.

A man has drowned in Galveston after being caught in a strong rip tide.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill to classify two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances.

Louisiana lawmakers have approved a first-of-its-kind bill that would classify two abortion-inducing drugs as a controlled and dangerous substances.

As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat.

The Supreme Court has ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.

Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban.

Democratic state Rep. Delisha Boyd is fighting an uphill battle in her attempt to pass a bill that would exempt cases of rape and incest from Louisiana's near-total abortion ban.

Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band's performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Kansas is requiring abortion providers to share patient information with the state and increasing funds to anti-abortion centers, while bills to loosen a restrictive ban in Louisiana face an uphill battle.

Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits.

SE Texas is on the edge of a severe weather threat today

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won Louisiana’s primary on Saturday, collecting more delegates after they already clinched their party nominations.