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Salt water flowing from the Gulf of Mexico into the drought-stricken Mississippi River is prompting Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to ask President Joe Biden to declare a state of emergency.

Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico is creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in some Louisiana communities.

The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's order requiring the Interior Department to expand next week’s scheduled sale of Gulf of Mexico oil and gas leases by millions of acres.

It’s spooky season and once again, a home in the U.S. is being accused of taking it too far with its Halloween displays.

The Supreme Court’s decision siding with Black voters in an Alabama redistricting case gave Democrats and voting rights activist a surprising opportunity before the 2024 elections to have congressional maps redrawn in a handful of states.

Diverting Mississippi River water to states struggling with water scarcity isn't a new idea.

A federal appeals court has significantly whittled down a lower court order curbing Biden administration communications with social media companies.

Police in Louisiana say a shooting during halftime of a high school football game has killed a 16-year-old student and wounded a woman in the arm.

Offshore wind advocates blame Texas’ antagonistic political climate for the lack of offers. A lease off the coast of Louisiana received two bids.

Another record-setting day of high temperatures hit the Dallas/Fort Worth area before a slight cooling trend moves into the area.

A suspect is being extradited to Texas from Louisiana after being accused of strangling and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her family’s apartment in the Houston area earlier this month.

It’s National Hire a Vet Day, and the effort now also includes military spouses., a largely untapped talent pool, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

A local youth baseball team recently won the pony league World Series championship in Youngsville, Louisiana.

The Biden administration has announced plans for the first sale of offshore wind power leases in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana and Texas coasts.

Archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground at a site in central Louisiana this summer to unearth and preserve evidence of prehistoric occupation.

An unexpected and unusual sight brightened the sky in southeastern Louisiana early Friday.

A federal judge in Louisiana has refused to put a temporary hold on his own order limiting Biden administration contacts with social media companies.

Dangerous heat and humidity is smothering parts of the South and Midwest.

Scorching heat blamed for at least 13 deaths in Texas and another in Louisiana is blanketing more of the Southeast.

The Supreme Court lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power.

More than 100,000 customers in the southern U.S. are still without power following damaging storms that have left residents searching for relief in sweltering temperatures.

A historically high number of supermajorities in state legislatures has pushed laws further to the edge on abortion, climate and transgender issues.

The Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC) is hosting its 36th annual conference in San Antonio

A Texas family is suing Arby’s after their 63-year-old relative died when she was trapped in a freezer at a Louisiana restaurant.

Criminal justice advocates have struggled at the Louisiana Legislature as they seek legal relief for hundreds of people convicted of serious crimes by nonunanimous juries.

New video and photographs purporting to show ivory-billed woodpeckers flying in a Louisiana forest have been published by researchers.

It's become an annual conservation event in central Louisiana: Young Louisiana pine snakes that were bred in captivity are released in Kisatchie National Forest in central Louisiana.

A Texas A&M student died Saturday after falling off a balcony while attending an event in New Orleans, according to media reports.

A woman has been arrested on a first-degree murder charge and obstruction of justice charge after the body of a 6-year-old girl was found in a bucket.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed new rules for monitoring and limiting harmful emissions from chemical plants.

A new National Academy of Science study says that 13 years after a massive BP oil spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico, regulators and industry have reduced some risks in deep water exploration in the gulf but some troublesome safety issues persist.

Oil companies including Chevron and ExxonMobil offered a combined $264 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in a sale mandated by last year’s climate bill compromise.

In the video above, meteorologist Jonathan Kegges breaks down the timeline of events of the recent tornadoes that ravaged Mississippi and what people should look for on the radar to help deal with future tornadoes.

Two Louisiana police officers are dead after their helicopter crashed into sugarcane field.

Officials with the Biden administration have visited a Louisiana wildlife refuge touting plans to clean up and plug “orphan wells.”.

Amtrak and the Southern Rail Commission say they will apply for federal funds to study passenger rail service between Meridian, Mississippi and Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas.

The natural temporary weather phenomenon La Nina is gone and that's good news for a disaster-weary Southeast.

Tornadoes touched down in Texas and Louisiana as a powerful storm system that dumped snow in California moved eastward.

The New Orleans police chief says a teenager died and four other people were wounded — including a 4-year-old girl — when gunfire broke out during a Mardi Gras parade Sunday night.

Organizers have announced a lineup of more than 270 acts for New Orleans’ 40th annual French Quarter Festival, billed as Louisiana’s largest free showcase of music, food and culture.

Authorities in Louisiana say 12 people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Baton Rouge early Sunday.

A police informant raped twice during an undercover drug buy in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit alleging her law enforcement handlers failed to monitor the sting in real time.

A 7-year-old girl died Friday in East Baton Rouge after being attacked by a neighbor’s dog.

The deaths of two teenage girls in a Louisiana town have brought renewed attention to fatalities that happen during high-speed police chases.

More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations.

Louisiana's Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy told supporters on Wednesday that he will not run for governor in October.

An attorney says Louisiana authorities' use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive warrant.

Much of the focus on politics in 2023 will be on the emerging presidential race.

Clayton Tune connected with Nathaniel Dell for a 12-yard touchdown with 20 seconds remaining, and Houston rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat Louisiana-Lafayette 23-16 in the Independence Bowl.

State and federal officials are warning horse owners not to feed their animals Top of the Rockies brand alfalfa cubes after nearly 100 horses have developed neurologic illnesses and 45 have died or been euthanized.

A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where some homes were blown into pieces.

French President Emmanuel Macron has paid a visit to Louisiana, the U.S. state most closely aligned with his country historically and culturally.

Residents in several towns across Louisiana and Mississippi have taken cover amid the blare of tornado sirens amid a severe weather outbreak erupting in the Deep South.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Congress gave too much power to a nonprofit authority it created in 2020 to develop and enforce horseracing rules.

People who work in hurricane-affected areas often talk about the stress the long rebuilding process can take on people and the anxiety stirred up during hurricane season.

Whooping cranes are the tallest and rarest birds in North America and they’re returning to Texas for their annual migration.

A Harris County judge increased the bond for a woman accused of starving her twin children and forcing them to drink bleach and household cleaners.

Authorities in southeast Louisiana's St. James Parish say all but two families have been allowed to return to their homes a day after a train car derailment and hydrochloric acid leak forced the evacuation of 200 residences.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution.

A woman whose twin children were found handcuffed and malnourished after they escaped their Houston-area home has been extradited to Texas.

LSU re-entered The Associated Press College Football poll at No. 18 and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the first time in four seasons.

Court records show a woman accused of starving and abusing her twin teenagers had been arrested a decade earlier on a child abuse charge.

Court records show a woman accused of starving and abusing her twin teenagers had been arrested a decade earlier on a child abuse charge.

A shipwreck has emerged along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as water levels plummet — threatening to reach record lows in some areas.

Police in Aransas Pass arrested a man in connection with a 14-year-old girl’s kidnapping in Louisiana.

The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in the mud and sand.

An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama wants a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor's damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions.

The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New Orleans area power plant project that had become an unlikely pawn in the ongoing political tug-of-war over enforcing Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban.

A record eight whooping crane chicks have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild.

A pregnant Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion even though her fetus has a rare and fatal condition is asking Gov. John Bel Edwards to call a special session of the legislature to clarify the state’s abortion law.

See you later alligator. Louisiana deputies had to wrestle an alligator in a couple’s backyard on Tuesday.

A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters.

The world's smallest and most endangered sea turtle has hatched in Louisiana's wilds for the first known time in 75 years.

There's no dispute that Louisiana needs to replace its voting machines.

Access to abortion in Louisiana has been back-and-forth for weeks — with the state’s three clinics relying on rulings and temporary restraining orders to continue operations.

Federal meteorologists say this hurricane season may not be quite as busy as they initially thought, but it should still be more active than normal.

A Louisiana sheriff says rapper Mystikal is again accused of rape.

A bright light that was seen over South Central Texas on Sunday night was also spotted in Oklahoma and Louisiana.

Two proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana coasts would join offshore oil drilling rigs in the gulf as the Biden administration tries to boost the country’s clean energy supply.

Court battles over abortion continue to play out in multiple states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling reversing abortion rights.

Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing the state’s near total ban on abortion.

Louisiana authorities can now enforce the state’s ban on almost all abortions under a new court order.

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total abortion ban that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced, putting him at odds with that state's Republican governor.

The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country, as abortion foes looked to quickly enact statewide bans and the other side sought to buy more time.

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested.

Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to use a doula, a person trained to assist women during pregnancies, in an effort to address racial inequities in maternal care.

The U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force captured two out-of-state suspects, including a man accused of murder and a jail escapee, in San Antonio on Tuesday, the agency announced.

Louisiana's Democratic governor says he'll call the state's Republican-dominated Legislature into special session to draw up new congressional districts.

Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans are the first in Louisiana to unionize.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate than Republican-led states want for calculating damages to people and the environment from greenhouse gas emissions.

A school shooting in Uvalde took the lives of 19 students and 2 teachers on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid.

Descendants of slaves who lived in southeastern Louisiana have won a key ruling allowing their legal opposition to a grain elevator to be built along the Mississippi River to go forward.

A judge has ordered a two-week halt on phasing out pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum as the Biden administration prepares for the restrictions to be fully lifted on May 23.

The Energy Department has authorized additional exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from planned terminals in Texas and Louisiana.

A livestreamed fatal stabbing of a woman on social media led police to her body in an office building parking lot in Louisiana’s capital.

Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way.

An effort by President Joe Biden's administration to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries has survived another court challenge.

Human-caused climate change made the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season even wetter.

The second-in-command of Louisiana State Police has been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the wiping of his cellphone data during an investigation into Black motorist Ronald Greene’s death.