A House committee has approved a bill to allow concealed firearms on college campuses in Louisiana. The bill by Rep. Ernest Wooton, a Belle Chasse Republican, would allow holders of concealed firearm permits...

A divisive proposal that would ban mobile dental clinics in schools has won approval from the House Health and Welfare Committee. But the committee added an array of exceptions to the bill by Republican...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Louisiana Republican agreed Tuesday to stop blocking the White House's pick to lead FEMA amid bipartisan criticism that he was leaving the agency vulnerable just a few weeks away...

Plans to spend $783 million in state surplus cash on road work, hurricane protection, a new deal with the New Orleans Saints and legislative pet projects received quick passage Monday from a House committee. Before...

Bill Worger, hired eight months ago as Graduate dean, found himself ousted by University officials last week with no warning. The University made no formal announcement, including no broadcast e-mail,...

University officials updated the LSU community today about looming budget cuts in a broadcast e-mail that highlighted growing support for funding higher education more fully and Chancellor Michael Martin's...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Music fans old enough to have attended the first New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 40 years ago boogied alongside those who weren't yet born when the celebration of music,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State health officials say the number of confirmed swine flu cases in Louisiana remains at seven — and not 14, as shown in a chart on the federal Centers for Disease Control...

A fight to save a Baton Rouge bar is underway in downtown courtrooms. Chelsea's owner Dave Remmetter is in court with the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control to decide if the ATC's removal of Chelsea's...

  Judge Trudy White found Chelsea's was not given due process of the law, and the Baton Rouge establishment was given an injunction to serve alcohol again at today's hearing.   In a hearing that...

Chancellor Michael Martin made his way across a wind-torn and muggy campus late September, lit cigar in his mouth and lack of sleep beginning to form dark circles under his eyes.It was on this day —...

The Faculty Senate has had a busy year filled with budgetary concerns and controversial resolutions. But for President Kevin Cope, the most important part has been the way Faculty Senate has stretched...