Bayou Weekly

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

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

Middle and High School students across Louisiana could be starting school at later times within the next few years. According to a new...