Dave McNamara

At a time when the US Army was still segregated, an all-Black tank battalion was created in Louisiana. The unit was called the “Black Panthers.”

A new memorial was unveiled in the small north Louisiana town of Colfax.

This is the time of year when as many as two billion birds are making their annual migration across the Gulf of Mexico.

Architects who are putting together plans to renovate the historic St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans are learning a few lessons from the fire-damaged Notre Dame in Paris.

A team of New Orleans architects was given a rare look inside the fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, in hopes of using the lessons learned to help with the renovations of St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans.

The crater, more than a mile across, was discovered in a rural area of St. Helena Parish in southeastern Louisiana.

A group of little-known world war two ammunition bunkers in belle chase house the largest collection of fish in the world.

Nicholas Curole built the house from Cypress timbers in the 1800s

Eddie Robinson compiled a 408–165–15 record in 56 football seasons at Grambling State.

Hired gunslinger Charles 'Leather Britches' Smith met his end in the area in 1912

The birthplace of jazz legend Kid Ory in LaPlace also was the scene of a rebellion by enslaved people forced into plantation work.

Lawrence Patin has managed La Poussiere for the last 55 years, starting when he was 18.

It’s a large, very old oak tree that’s been battered and bruised over the centuries, and it has become a symbol of survival and resilience in southwest Louisiana.