The state Senate Education Committee favorably passed a piece of legislation Thursday that aims to form a commission to examine Louisiana higher education. With 14 universities throughout the state battling...

(AP) — Four former Louisiana governors held a private meeting Thursday with Gov. Bobby Jindal, urging him to find a way to lessen planned budget cuts for the state's public colleges in a rare display...

Health care and higher education are both looking at steep budget reductions next fiscal year. And just as Chancellor Michael Martin and LSU System President John Lombardi have spoken up about the effects...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections in the United States, Europe, Australia,...

MAN CAUGHT TRESPASSING BEFORE BASEBALL GAMELSU Police Department arrested a man unaffiliated with the University on June 5 at 4:30 p.m. for trespassing near Alex Box Stadium after being previously banned...

Leah Duvic heard about Twitter more than a year ago. But it took her a while to catch onto the recent craze.Duvic, photography senior, said she first created her account last year but didn't start using...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...