State

While Gov.

Shuanessy Matthews grew up in St. Helena Parish, a largely rural African American community where one out of every four households lives below the poverty line.
She knows firsthand that education is the only route out of the many poor and rural communities like her home.

New research finds face matching, as when customs agents check passports, to be incredibly fallible, with error rates between 10 and 20 percent under ideal, laboratory-induced conditions, and much worse in more realistic settings.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is accepting applications for an experimental spring/summer feral hog trapping season on select wildlife management areas around the state.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced that the reward has been increased to $20,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for shooting the two whooping cranes found in Jefferson Davis Parish on Feb. 7.