An AP story quotes five people about Rep. Cleo Fields leaving Congress, and none from the other side. It never mentions the Republican who held the seat first.
Analysis: A megaproject's questions tend to arrive after its trucks. What Meta's Louisiana data center suggests residents of Pecan Island should ask SpaceX now.
The September 25 application covers a 15.75-mile haul road, a Gulf wharf, and about 5.2 million cubic yards of excavation. It does not list homes for removal, and it does not build the towers.
The Pentagon says the designation brings priority in officer commissioning. The memo does not say how that priority works.
G7 countries pledged a four-month reserve release and promised not to restrict energy exports to one another. Louisiana's diesel average is $5.88
Louisiana diesel set a record above $6 a gallon last month and remains near it as U.S. exports to Europe climb. Washington now wants Europe to release reserves.
No ruling, no roster spots, no cancellation of Thursday’s vote. The football emergency cooled. The lawsuit did not.
The SEC sued Louisiana's attorney general to clear the way for a vote on kicking LSU out of the conference. Here's what's actually at stake.
College football has always been messy. This week it got litigious.
Louisiana just waived its cap on E15 gasoline under an emergency order tied to the Iran war. The promised savings are real but narrow, the mileage math is more modest than it sounds, and the "supply crisis" behind it isn't the kind you'd actually see at the pump.
Three separate controversies — a viral streamer's inflammatory remarks, a resurfaced "I hate Mackinac" clip, and renewed scrutiny of a Sharia-related speech — are testing Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid weeks before Election Day.
WECU News reported this Louisiana spaceport 16 days before SpaceX made it official. Here's how today's $100 billion announcement confirms our reporting — and the orbital AI angle the national media still hasn't caught up to.
Lafayette's DA cleared former Mayor-President Josh Guillory over a secret drainage project. A week later, the parish next door indicted him anyway.
Viral post claims Louisiana police lack authority for Flock cameras. WECU News checks the law.
Hammoud asks Michigan's AG to weigh hate crime charges against Jake Lang's Dearborn protests — as Lang's own $200M lawsuit against the city moves forward.
Doug Topolski says Dearborn police ran his plates through the Flock network after he publicly criticized the department and mayor — even though he lives 250 miles away. A FOIA found no related police reports.
An anti-Islamic activist is planning a pig roast and a City Council speech in Dearborn Tuesday. He says he expects violence. The city's answer: refuse to give him an audience.
A Supreme Court ruling on phone location data wasn't about license plate cameras at all — but its reasoning just handed Flock's critics their strongest legal weapon yet, right as a pivotal appeal sits before the Fourth Circuit.
Crowley and Hong agreed on more than the "moderate beats socialist" headline suggests — the real split was over data centers and how to cut property taxes.
SpaceX's orbital AI constellation now has a name, real hardware specs, and a manufacturing timeline. Louisiana lawmakers have already passed laws that appear built specifically around a project the size of the Vermilion Parish deal
The Landry administration is finalizing a deal to bring Elon Musk's SpaceX to a remote stretch of Vermilion Parish coastline. Texas and Florida residents who already live near active launch sites say Louisiana needs to know what's coming.
Advocates say a decades-long pattern of abuse allegations at the shuttered East Baton Rouge juvenile facility is exactly why it shouldn't reopen under the same model — even as the state pushes ahead with plans to do just that.
A grand jury formally charged Cole with bribery and money laundering the day before school started; he turned himself in, bonded out, and was back at his desk within hours.
Senior Police Officer Brandon Coleman allegedly pocketed over $111,000 in overtime he never worked — the latest arrest in a widening NOPD payroll scandal that began with hidden cameras and a local watchdog's timesheet audits.
Cole turned himself in Thursday after an arrest-warrant affidavit revealed text messages allegedly showing he agreed to $40,000 in bribes tied to city-parish contracts.
Baton Rouge Police corporal arrested on 40 felony counts after admitting to sharing protected law enforcement records with a known drug dealer and other unauthorized individuals, per the Louisiana Attorney General's office.
EBR Schools Superintendent LaMont Cole indicted on felony bribery and money laundering charges hours before the first day of school, becoming the ninth official charged in Louisiana's widening Baton Rouge corruption probe.
Trump warns Iran of a last chance before decapitation
Best kept secret in Baton Rouge Area
Los Angeles just logged its first flea-borne typhus outbreak of 2026 — arriving right as the disease enters its worst season, and months after the county identified the environmental conditions still fueling it.
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