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One legislator wanted to ban THC hemp. Another wanted to keep it. Here's how it turned out.

The situation looked dire for the booming new industry that gets people high, legally, from hemp.

USS Kidd museum hosts new exhibit honoring 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion

Supreme Court ruling will make it harder to create more majority-Black districts in Louisiana

Former LSU basketball player Josh Maravich, the son of Pete Maravich, has died at 42

A Louisiana crawfish farm put a viral peeling tool to the test. Does it really work?

A crawfish farm and shipping facility in north Louisiana tested a viral innovation that is designed to make a seasonal, seconds-long task even faster for residents of the Bayou State.

LSU baseball transfer portal tracker 2024: Who's in, who's out for the Tigers?

LSU baseball will not repeat as national champions in 2024.

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A New Orleans second line in northern France? St. Aug Marching 100 gets caught up in a moment.

SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE, France – Newly graduated St. Augustine High School Marching 100 snare dr…

State Politics

Officials seek crime prevention districts to revitalize North Baton Rouge neighborhoods

Two Baton Rouge neighborhoods are poised to establish crime prevention districts to assist w…

Education

Baton Rouge superintendent search enters speed round: See when the final vote might happen

The search for the next leader of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system will soon enter …

State Politics

Louisiana federal judgeships may remain vacant in GOP protest of Donald Trump's conviction

WASHINGTON — A Republican protest over a New York jury convicting Donald Trump last week cou…

Courts

Family of man who died in Baton Rouge jail files suit claiming neglect in care

Kaddarrius Marquise Cage had never seen the inside of a jail cell before he was arrested for…

Education

Baton Rouge school board members debate employee pay raise, sustainability

A proposal to increase salaries for East Baton Rouge public school educators by $2,200, brin…

Sports

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame 2024: Drew Brees gave Saints, N.O. 'a reason to celebrate'

Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories on the 2024 inductees into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. The induction festivities are June 20-22 in Natchitoches.

Check out the boys and girls 2024 All-Metro track and field teams, athletes of year

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LSU baseball team sees another pitcher enter portal, and this one was highly touted

A third LSU relief pitcher has entered his name in the transfer portal after the Tigers' season ended Monday night.

Special Reports

Louisiana 2050: What you need to know about our vanishing coast

The newspaper’s project examining the future of south Louisiana at a time of climate change,…

Louisiana 2050: Explore the perilous future of our coast with maps and data

Louisiana may be the state most at risk from climate change, and the year 2050 could prove t…

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…

Collapsed: An insurance market in crisis

ORLANDO, Fla.A — Months after Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis' appointees agreed to end a protracted legal fight, the two sides are set to approve an agreement that could result in the company investing up to $17 billion into its Florida resort and opens the door to a fifth major theme park at…

Share summer travel photos from Louisiana and beyond

To announce an opportunity for readers to share summer travel photos, we've asked our newsroom staff to share some of their travel photographs from the last year.

Lake Charles Pit Bull Rescue: Meet the woman sheltering animals from the storm

Over the past 15 years, René Smith has rescued thousands of animals, many of them in heartbreaking condition — abused, neglected and injured. However, if asked about the hardest period in her life in animal rescue, Smith has an unequivocal answer: the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.

Opinions

Editorial: Session was jam-packed with action, but its impact less clear

If there’s a word for the annual legislative session that ended last week — indeed, for the three sessions that lawmakers have held since they took office in January — it might be “frenetic.”

Stephanie Grace: In Super Bowl of economic development, backward policies cost Louisiana valuable yards

During a political forum I attended last fall, someone brought up the culture war legislation that’s proliferating these days in conservative states like Louisiana. Did the candidates for governor worry, the questioner asked, that our state could get a reputation as unwelcoming?

Quin Hillyer: Joe Biden’s fake border restrictions are par for his radical course

President Joe Biden’s tone-deaf new executive order purporting to reduce illegal immigration is one more example of why he does not deserve another term, notwithstanding that his opponent, former President Donald Trump, also belongs nowhere near the Oval Office.