While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long ...

FEMA was established in 1979 at the insistence of Southern governors who wanted a more coordinated federal relief effort.

Louisiana state police said a fifth inmate has now been captured, leaving five dangerous fugitives still on the run after 10 men escaped from the New Orleans Justice Center.

The Nottoway Plantation House, a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation, was "the South's largest remaining ...

Louisiana State Police captured another one of the ten inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail on Thursday. CBS News reporter Kati Weis has more details.

Local officials are looking at a variety of steps to jumpstart the Louisiana movie industry, from giving the state economic ...