Days after Louisiana’s top health official ordered to an end to mass vaccination efforts and promotions in the state, Louisiana doctors, New Orleans health officials and U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more ...

Abraham, the state’s surgeon general, wrote in a memo. By Tim Balk Louisiana’s top health official said in an internal memo to the state’s Health Department on Thursday that it would no ...

“I trust people in Louisiana to make decisions based on the educational needs of the state of Louisiana.” Cade Brumley, the Louisiana state superintendent of education, speaks with state and ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Voting polls are open for the Louisiana State Senate District 23 special election race between Jesse Regan and Branch Myers. Polls for the election opened at 7 a.m. and ...

The Louisiana Department of Health announced this week it no longer will promote mass vaccinations in the state, saying the move was necessary to “rebuild trust.” In a letter released Thursday ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Voting polls have closed for the Louisiana State Senate District 23 election with Brach Myers beating out Jesse Regan in the special election. Myers won 55% of votes to ...

Louisiana has not executed anyone in 15 years. Now, under a pair of death warrants signed this week, the state could soon execute two people back-to-back. Judges in St. Tammany Parish and DeSoto ...

Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing Louisiana to resume executing death row prisoners, with the state potentially carrying out its first executions since 2010 next month with nitrogen gas on the table.

“Christopher Sepulvado’s death overnight in the prison infirmary is a sad comment on the state of the death penalty in Louisiana,” Nolan said in a statement. “The idea that the State was ...

Kathy Hochul has rejected a request from Louisiana to extradite Dr. Maggie Carpenter, who was charged with prescribing abortion pills to a pregnant minor in the state last month. "I will not be ...

The Louisiana Department of Health will no longer promote mass vaccination, the state’s surgeon general, Dr. Ralph Abraham, told state health workers Thursday. “The State of Louisiana and LDH ...