Louisiana

Alicia Lapoint was born premature and deaf, and her mother says she has spent 15 years fighting to get her the support she needs in school. That fight followed her into ninth grade at John Ehret High School in Marrero, where her mother, Lauren Fricano, says the campus did not always provide an interpreter and sometimes fell short on the resources Alicia needed to succeed.

For the first time, a company and its two founders are among the 2027 Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Legends honorees. Houston Energy Limited Partnership and LSU alums Billy Harrison and Ron Neal are being recognized for the impact of their leadership in Louisiana and beyond while inspiring future generations of leaders and innovators.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Residents of Gulf Stream Manor, a mobile home park on Gulf Highway, are asking what a foreclosure means for them as the property heads to a sheriff’s sale on Jan. 20. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office seized the park in 2025 at the lender’s...

Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, giving Louisiana residents an extra hour overnight.

In the last two years, 10 Louisianians were infected by an amoeba that the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) said can be found in ordinary tap water.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Marrero woman accused of a fatal hit-and-run at a St. Roch-area gas station deliberately ran over her victim twice after stealing her goods, according to an investigation detailed in court records. The account of 54-year-old victim Erica Gabriel’s death was provided in a booking report...

Multiple generations of Black civil rights activists met at Xavier University on Wednesday to honor a group of Freedom Riders after they finally completed a disrupted bus journey from Washington D.C. to New Orleans 65 years after the original trip was halted. The original ride, the first in a series of trips to protest Jim […]

A new piece of evidence has emerged in the search for Christina Munn-Holliday, but questions remain about her disappearance.

Flags across Louisiana were lowered to half-staff on Saturday to honor legendary LSU basketball coach Dale Brown.

Covington High School has muscled its way into the final round of a national contest that could hand the Lions a $1 million facility upgrade, after the school already banked $345,000 in cash and prizes by winning the South Division of T-Mobile's Friday Night 5G Lights competition. Students, cheerleaders and the school band gathered Thursday for a prep rally celebrating the milestone, with public voting now open for the grand prize through Nov. 8.