Students can get to work a year faster,” said Liz Beard, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at LSU at Alexandria, where Louisiana’s first two degrees in the accelerated model will be ...

After a federal appeals court in February cleared Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law, Christopher Dier kept getting the same question: What about his lawsuit? Dier, a New Orleans history teacher and ...

With his team in need of a spark, Casey Parker-Karst turned the ignition on his team’s surge to a state championship. Not only in the state final — when the Jesuit striker scored his team’s two goals ...

Several recent high-profile NBA, MLB and NCAA sports gambling scandals came to light in which players intentionally underperformed to influence betting odds.

The soft-spoken lawyer, oil-company executive and philanthropist does whatever he can to make all kinds of art accessible to any and all people, and to preserve the New Orleans institutions that make ...

Health Notes is an occasional listing of health happenings around Louisiana. Have something you'd like to share? Contact us at margaret.delaney@theadvocate.com. St. Tammany Health System offers first ...

Dominican went on to defeat Mount Carmel in the state final with Zippert scoring one of her team’s shootout goals. The high scoring output for a state-title winner made her The Times-Picayune’s large ...

Freddie Sawyer Jr., the first Black person to drive a public bus in New Orleans, is photographed at his home in New Orleans, Monday, March 9, 2026. Sawyer began driving in 1961 an ...

Investing is often an emotionally charged word—one that carries a host of assumptions and uncertainties. When you’re just ...

Here are some of the recent awards and special recognitions received by leaders at south Louisiana businesses and nonprofit groups.

Gerard Edward Henry, Melissa and Gerard, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Niels Monsted IV, Fionuala and Charles. Guests entered historic Gallier Hall, the former city hall of New Orleans and designed by ...

When the approximately 70 full-time musicians that make up the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra stand at the end of each of their 120 annual performances to acknowledge your applause, they are often ...