LSU Public Affairs sent a broadcast e-mail Friday afternoon to highlight two pieces of legislation that might help the University cope with expected budget cuts for fiscal year 2009-10.The first piece...

Louisiana is going after drunk boaters — particularly underage drinkers. Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham and Alcohol and Tobacco Control Commissioner Murphy J. Painter say their agents...

The Louisiana Senate is weighing a $28 billion budget that's strikingly different from the spending plan backed by the House last month. The budget bill, as reworked by the Senate Finance Committee, contains...

Although the possibility of job cuts has been talked about since February, Chancellor Michael Martin is making sure people hear about it again. Martin told WAFB Channel 9 today that unless "drastic" changes...

The LSU Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the realignment plans for both LSU-Eunice and LSU-Shreveport at the June Board meeting today. At LSU-Eunice, the Division of Business and Technology and...

Chancellor Michael Martin briefed the Board of Supervisors on the status of realignment discussions at LSU A&M in Baton Rouge on Thursday. "We are not as far along as our sister institutions," Martin...

A team of researchers and students from Louisiana State University has won first prize at an international supercomputing conference for a demonstration simulating black holes. A black hole is formed when...

(AP) — The Louisiana House on Thursday voted down a proposal to allow concealed handguns on university campuses. Lawmakers voted 86-18 to reject the bill, which drew heavy opposition from university...

The University community mourned the death of Brian McCrory Doherty this week.Doherty, a 21-year-old junior and Baton Rouge native, died May 16 in New Roads in a boating accident on the False River.Doherty's...

A New Orleans based organization sent more than 4,000 petition signatures to Chancellor Michael Martin on Thursday morning in support of Ivor van Heerden.The petition by Levees.org was in response to the...

HOUSTON (AP) — As tens of millions tank up and hit the road for Memorial Day weekend, gas prices are rising fast enough to revive painful memories of the $4-a-gallon summer of 2008. Rest easy: The...

The Louisiana House of Representative passed House Bill 1, the state's budget, Wednesday with about $80 million allotted for higher education, according to a broadcast e-mail from the University's Public...