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A squad of U.S. Army soldiers in helmets stands in tall grass on a mountaintop observation post, looking out over green valleys and rice fields in the Tam Ky area of Vietnam in September 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army / National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (resized). Archival photo, not the Lake Charles memorial.

Lake Charles' Lakefront Memorial Is Officially Louisiana's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Under Sen. Jeremy Stine's Act 760

Act 760 made the memorial in Lake Charles' Veterans Memorial Park the official Louisiana Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It lists 885 Louisiana war dead.

A speaker at a podium marked "The National WWII Museum" addresses a 2010 Veterans Day ceremony in New Orleans, with service flags and seated veterans and guests behind her under an "America's Heroes" banner. Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class William Colclough, U.S. Coast Guard, public domain (resized).

Louisiana Thanks Its Veterans With an Honor Medal, and Families Can Apply Too

Louisiana gives honorably discharged veterans a Veterans Honor Medal, with no fee listed. Here's who qualifies and how to apply before Veterans Day.

Three men in life jackets sit in a red bass boat on calm water during a Take a Warrior Fishing day for veterans and their families at Pine Flat Lake, California, in 2014. Photo: Robert Kidd / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain (resized).

Honorably Discharged Louisiana Veterans Can Buy the $20 Hunting and Fishing Combo License, Under Sen. Brach Myers' Act 321

Honorably discharged veterans who live in Louisiana can buy the $20 hunting and fishing combo license under Act 321. Here's who qualifies and how to apply.

Politics

A red Regional Transit Authority streetcar signed "Canal" rolling down tracks in downtown New Orleans, with palm trees and buildings behind it. Photo: vxla (2010), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Rep. Shaun Mena's Act 511 Changes Meeting, Training and Audit Rules for the RTA Board

Act 511 by state Rep. Shaun Mena took effect Aug. 1, 2025. See what changed for the RTA board: meetings, training, quorum, the advisory board and audits.

The St. Martin Parish Courthouse in St. Martinville, Louisiana. Photo: Z28scrambler, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Why Louisiana Has Parishes, and Who Actually Runs Yours

Every Louisiana kid learns early that the state has parishes where the rest of the country has counties. Fewer people could say why, or who actually decides when their parish road gets patched. The answer runs from Spanish colonial church records to the 1974 state constitution, and it explains why local government looks so different from one parish to the next. The word comes from the colonial era, when local life in French and Spanish Louisiana was organized around Catholic

Supreme Court to hear arguments on Louisiana congressional map

The United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., where justices are set to review the constitutionality of Louisiana's new...

Opinion

Opinion: LSU Women’s Basketball Team Can Go All the Way Again if They Drown Out the Noise - Or Let it Fuel Them

LSU's Pitching Success Relies on Consistency, Not Perfection

LETTERS: Pleased About Senate Committee Meeting

Sports

The stadium at Amite High School in Louisiana, with a sign reading "Home of the Amite Warriors" listing state championship years, light towers and the grandstand behind it. Photo: Akil Head, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized).

The 2026 LHSAA Football Playoff Brackets Are Out: No. 1 Seeds and First-Round Games

The exterior of Tiger Stadium on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge on a football gameday, with the stadium walls and surrounding plaza in daylight. Photo: WClarke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (resized).

Alabama Comes to Tiger Stadium at 2:30 Saturday on ABC, the First Daytime Kickoff in the Series There Since 2010

Open coastal marsh at Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Louisiana, with grass, a shallow pond in the foreground and white egrets in the distance. Photo: Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).

Saturday Is Youth and Veterans Waterfowl Day in Louisiana's West Zone. Here's Who Can Hunt and What to Bring

Culture

A single orange satsuma with a green leaf and a short stem attached, resting on a white paneled surface. Photo: Infrogmation of New Orleans, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, taken in 2012.

Satsuma Season in South Louisiana: When They Ripen and How to Pick a Good One

A large black cast-iron pot on a stand holds browned chunks of food bubbling in oil, with a metal paddle resting in it, at the 2014 Blackpot Festival at Acadian Village in Lafayette. Photo: Butterbean, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (resized).

The Blackpot Festival Turns 20 This Halloween Weekend at Vermilionville, With a Cast-Iron Cook-Off and a Costume Contest

The State Library of Louisiana building in downtown Baton Rouge, a gray and white multistory building with rows of glass windows and its name on a sign over the entrance, with a lamppost, trees, a hedge and a curving sidewalk across the lawn under a cloudy sky, photographed in April 2024. Photo: xiquinhosilva, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 (resized).