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METAIRIE — A company revealed a $1 billion infrastructure investment as part of its plans to build a national headquarters in Metairie. On Friday, Gov. Jeff Landry, ConnectLA and Swyft Fiber announced plans to build more than $1 billion in broadband infrastructure. The investment includes Swyft Fiber's existing network,...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A coalition of Iowa youth organizations is pushing for settlement money from Meta to be invested directly in programs that support young people's mental health and development. The newly formed Fund IRL Iowa coalition is calling on state leaders to use Iowa's $126 million share...

Big Chief Demond Melancon’s work is among the first encountered upon entering “In Minor Keys,” the late Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition for the 61st Venice Biennale. His monumental ceremonial suits introduce visitors to the extraordinary visual language of New Orleans Black Masking Culture, a more than 250-year-old tradition rooted in community, performance, storytelling, and collective memory. Constructed entirely by hand through dense beadwork, feathers, and rhinestones, Melancon’s works bring histori

JOHNSTON, Iowa– Blue Star Mothers of Iowa is packing over 2,000 care packages to send to all Iowa service members who are deployed and who are set to be deployed before and just after the holidays. It’s a tradition that started over a decade ago, but has grown significantly over the past few years. Last […]

Cold weather is blowing onto the bayou this weekend. Wind chills in the 20’s and 30’s inland and “feels-like” temperatures in the 30’s are expected all the way down to the Gulf Coast by Saturday morning. Patchy frost is possible in colder locations, with a brief freeze not entirely ruled out.

The man accused of threatening to burn down the University of New Orleans campus last December had the criminal charge against him dropped on his scheduled trial date in September, and now he says he wants to come back to school. Joseph Wade Russo, 42, says he is just three courses short of a kinesiology and biomechanics degree and wants to graduate from LSU New Orleans, even though a stay-away order against him remains in effect.

IOWA CITY — This is the highest number of high school graduates the state of Iowa is likely to see for the next two decades, a Board of Regents staffer said this week as part of his fall 2026 enrollment report . With Iowa’s long-awaited enrollment cliff beginning in 2027, local colleges and universities that rely on both in- and out-of-state enrollment will feel the double-whammy of larger declines in students from neighboring states like Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota, according t

A temporary injunction blocks companies such as Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood from doing business in the state.

No. 10 Iowa faces No. 8 Vanderbilt in Sioux City on Sunday in its second top-10 test in a week. The Hawkeyes bounced back from a loss at No. 2 UConn with a 78-40 win over Northern Iowa; Vanderbilt arrives unbeaten and averaging more than 100 points per game. Iowa...

Gas prices fell in Iowa this week, according to AAA. As of Wednesday, the price of regular unleaded gasoline averaged $3.82 across Iowa. Prices fell 15 cents from last week’s price and are up $1.02 from a year ago. The national average on Wednesday was $3.98, down 14 cents from last week’s price. Last year at this time the national average was $3.08.