A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest by federal officers of a Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment.

Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant.

Longtime New Jersey legislator and former acting governor Richard “Dick” Codey has died.

A family cleaning their backyard in New Orleans discovered an unusual marble tablet with some characters in Latin.

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana is a beacon for U.S. energy policy, according to two members of President Donald Trump's cabinet who spoke to workers there.

New Orleans has faced tragedy again and again and always seems to bounce back, maintaining its reputation for jazz and joyfulness.

The city of New Orleans and local community groups are offering PlayStations to people willing to turn in guns.

For months, a fugitive dog known as Scrim has transfixed the city of New Orleans.

The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies that placed polluting industries in majority-Black communities.

Residents of a historic Black community in Louisiana who’ve spent years fighting against a massive grain export facility set to be built on the grounds where their enslaved ancestors once lived appear to have finally halted the project.