Gov. John Bel Edwards and East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome toured a long-awaited dredging project now underway at the University Lakes Thursday, as contractors begin work revitalizing the neglected features of the Louisiana State University campus.

Heavy rains prompted flash flood warnings and caused power outages across portions of East Baton Rouge Parish Wednesday morning and city-parish officials warned that slow-moving afternoon rainstorms could exacerbate the hazardous conditions.

For the first time, Port Fourchon's staff has begun thinking about the maritime industry’s role in climate change, and they’re reimagining the port’s future as the world looks to transition away from fossil fuels.

Flooding is happening with more frequency and lasting longer, changing floodplain habitats. Invasive species are working their way further up the river and into its tributaries. And despite efforts to curb pollution running off land and into the river, the dead zone where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico still persists.Advocates for the river are hoping that a proposed federal funding program, modeled after an effort to clean up the Great Lakes, could change that trajectory.

Recent deaths in prisons across the Gulf South have highlighted issues from staffing to healthcare to climate change. An expert on deaths in custody discusses how they can be prevented.

Noodling, which is when one catches catfish with their bare hands, is legal in Louisiana as of Monday. Not like that’s stopped anyone before.

A Louisiana appeals court has ruled the state’s near-total abortion ban can take effect — but the decision still requires a formal order from a lower court judge for the law to be enforced.