Louisiana

Officials with the New Orleans Saints announced that the team's preseason game with the Arizona Cardinals has been canceled due to Hurricane Ida.

Ida could be a major Category 3 hurricane by the time it finally reaches the U.S. coast as the area prepares to mark the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall.

Two suspects, who were previously out on bond, were arrested and charged for capital murder of an off-duty New Orleans PD officer in Houston. Officials say they're working to ensure they don't get a bond this time.

U.S. military medical officers have been deployed to hospitals in Mississippi and Louisiana as both states face devastating surges in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths amid low vaccination rates.

A manhunt is underway for suspects linked to shooting two men, one of them was Everett Briscoe, an off-duty officer with the New Orleans PD, who tragically died.

The New Orleans Jazz Fest, which had been postponed from 2020 to October 2021, has again been canceled due to surging COVID-19 cases in Louisiana.

The medical chief at Louisiana’s largest hospital called the current COVID-19 surge “the darkest days of this pandemic.”

After an autopsy and toxicology report, deputies said the infant died due to acute fentanyl toxicity. The 28-year-old mother was arrested.

Louisiana’s largest hospital system reported an increase in pediatric COVID-19 cases amid a surge in delta variant cases across the United States.

A group of Louisiana drivers spent hours trying to move a 12-foot alligator off a busy interstate with a paint-roller extension pole.

Louisiana is reenacting a statewide mask mandate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated residents across all indoor locations, including schools and colleges.

Rep. Clay Higgins says he and his wife were infected last year, but this time around is much more difficult.

One hospital in Louisiana has been forced to stop nonemergency surgeries amid an influx of COVID-19 patients.

More than 100 false claims to California’s Employment Development Department netted $1 million for eight people, and five of them also got more than $60,000 that they weren’t due from the Louisiana Workforce Commission, officials said.

Sheriff Jeffery Travis says a 12-year-old boy shot and killed an armed intruder who'd threatened his mother.

Whether dribbling a basketball or identifying obscure Latin or Greek roots, Zaila Avant-garde doesn't show much stress.

A tree crashed into a baby's room after putting being put to sleep. The 5-month-old was not injured, but the scary ordeal was captured on video.

Some tense moments between a small, territorial alligator and a Louisiana woman were caught on camera.