In Louisiana, people depend on Medicaid more than almost anywhere else in the country, with about one-third of the state ...

Texas State Senator Angela Paxton has filed for divorce from her husband, Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who ...

President Donald Trump has announced in a letter on social media that Canadian goods will be subject to a 35% tariff rate ...

Hurricane Katrina is the deadliest flood event in the U.S. in the past 25 years. The storm crashed into the Gulf Coast and ...

Last month, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge to watch Gov. Jeff Landry ...

Louisiana has had its first confirmed human case of the West Nile Virus this year. We don’t know much about the patients, but we do know they are from Livingston Parish, and they are hospitalized ...

A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found nearly half of America's states are on the brink of a caregiving emergency.

Louisiana's McNeese State University will be site of the federal government's new national center for liquefied natural gas safety, U.S. officials announced Monday.

A federal judge on Friday indefinitely prohibited the Department of Health and Human Services from terminating $11 billion in public health grants set aside for states.

As the measles outbreak in Texas threatens to spread to other states, health experts in Louisiana are warning against measles parties, which are an attempt by parents to intentionally expose their ...

Louisiana health officials are monitoring measles cases were reported in neighboring states, but so far, no cases have been reported in Louisiana this year.