Louisiana News

The lineup for this year's French Quarter Festival, one of the largest free music festivals in the country, was announced Thursday.

When/Where? Friday-Sunday at A St. Peters City Hall , 1 Saint Peters Centre Blvd.

An 18-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that runs through Camp Ripley will be featured in an upcoming special on the Nat Geo Wild channel at 7 p.m. Feb.

I have a piece out today at Alternet detailing the struggle to protect some of the United States' most beautiful and unique landscapes from the scourge of dirty energy production.

We NEED Gingrich and Santorum to STAY in the race. Because they, along with Dr. Paul will keep Romney from a majority at the convention.

The sheer size of Louisiana's coastal crisis has, in a perverse way, limited this state's response to one of its most pressing challenges.

I am not an expert on Mardi Gras, but as a Louisiana native, this annual celebration has always been very important to me and is deeply intertwined in my state's culture for hundreds of years.

Rick Santorum, a Republican candidate for President of the United States, will be in Fulton Friday afternoon for a campaign speech.

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A new study finds that Louisiana's second Gulf of Mexico dead zone stretches at least from the Chandeleur Sound off Louisiana's coast to Alabama's Dauphin Island and could extend across Alabama's coast.

That would scare the crap out of us all !!!! Now that's a snake... A King Brown in Branxton, NSW, Australia.

The lineup of weapons the Pentagon has picked to fit President Barack Obama's defense strategy, called "Priorities for 21st-Century Defense," features relics of the past.

Outside of the larger spectre of climate change, the biggest environmental crisis in the United States is the melting of southern Louisiana into the ocean.* A combination of diking the Mississippi River to prevent flooding and facilitate commerce and petroleum companies challenging through the marshes have decimated this unique and beautiful ... (more)

Pure Dixieland sounds will be coming from the Municipal Auditorium Sunday afternoon when the Southern Fried Jazz Band plays in concert.

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Below are statements from elected officials around the state of Louisiana in response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address.

Storms are ready to fire up to our west. After a relatively quiet day, it is about to get active for northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, west Mississippi and west Tennessee.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has pushed the idea of selling carbon credits in the emerging cap-and-trade markets for work to restore the badly eroding Mississippi River delta.

If the Crescent City Connection tolls expire, the bridge's budget would be slashed from $27 million to about $5 million, forcing wholesale cutbacks and a dependence on the under-funded state transportation department to pick up the slack.

A grounded ship and draft restrictions on the lower Mississippi River this week proved to be enough to secure some supplemental funding for the Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans district.