A Gretna representative's bill seeking to make it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptions advances to the full House. Vincent Cox's "click to cancel" bill passed unanimously in the House Commerce Committee this morning. Cox says it's often an unnecessarily tedious process to cancel subscriptions. "If you...

Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser opposes an effort to name a new I-10 Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area after President Donald Trump. Nungesser says he has a problem with naming a public structure after a living official. "Usually, after you're out of office, people name things after you because of the ...

Coming soon to LSU Alexandria - three-year bachelor's degree programs. This, after the Board of Regents approved the state's first accelerated bachelor's degree programs for specialized workforce-focused degrees. Liz Beard, the vice chancellor of academic affairs at LSUA, says these new programs, which will initially b...

A state lawmaker is looking to boost teacher pay to align with the regional average. Monroe Representative Michael Echols' Teacher Pay Modernization Act would gradually increase teacher pay throughout the state until it reaches the Southern regional average. "It looks at us raising that average over a 4-year perio...

Researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center publish the first set of data from its RURAL Heart and Lung study. Lead Researcher Dr. Stephanie Broyles says the study gathered data in Assumption Parish. "We're presenting information on rates of heart attack and stroke, as well as how some of those number...