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The agency, which has recently faced a series of financial scandals, has been working without a full governing board since ...

Gov. Landry’s tax plan would replace millions in income tax revenue with new sales tax revenue that would disproportionately ...

The temporary restraining order bars state troopers from engaging in sweeps of unhoused residents or seizures of their ...

Jones has touted his experience in education. But a review by Verite News identified serious discrepancies in his resume.

This is work done by many different people and expresses the priorities not only of the councilmembers but the people that ...

According to the American Library Association, the tribe’s land once stretched from Lafayette to New Orleans and south to the ...

The give-and-take partnership between the Natchez Tribe and French settlers dissolved, resulting in violence in 1716 and 1723.

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