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The Biden administration said Wednesday it is considering the first-ever lease sale for offshore wind energy in the Gulf of Mexico, a key part of a push to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2030 to help fight climate change.
BATON ROUGE, La (AP) — Richard Ieyoub, a three-term Louisiana attorney general who lost bids to become governor and U.S. senator, died Monday in Baton Rouge at age 78.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — McNeese State fired basketball coach John Aiken on Wednesday after the Cowboys went 22-45 the past two seasons.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — De’Lazarus Keys had 18 points and Texas A&M-CC beat McNeese 80-63 on Tuesday night in the Southland Conference Tournament.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Brycen Long’s 32 points led Houston Christian over McNeese 90-81 on Saturday night.
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Fairview 71, Avoyelles 34

Oak Hill 61, Church Point 44

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Airline 66, North DeSoto 13

Albany 60, Springfield 44

Alexandria 35, Bolton 26

Anacoco 38, Simpson 33
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Officers in a southwest Louisiana city shot and wounded a woman who fired a gun after they responded to a call about 6:30 a.m.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A homeowner shot and killed a possibly intoxicated college student who was trying to get into his house and ignored both orders to leave and a warning shot, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said Tuesday.
WESTLAKE, La. (AP) — Three subsidiaries of a Texas-based petrochemical company on Thursday settled allegations that they violated federal and state pollution control laws.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A $90,000 jackpot won by someone who played the Louisiana Lottery’s Easy 5 game in December remains unclaimed, lottery officials said.
The Energy Department has authorized additional exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from planned terminals in Texas and Louisiana.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Northrop Grumman is laying off 120 workers in Lake Charles, the company confirms.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Registration has started for a new program to help low- and moderate-income Lake Charles residents fix 2020 hurricane damage to their homes, and Mayor Nic Hunter says he expects it to fill up fast.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Some Lake Charles residents are envisioning a new recreation loop as a way of helping the city recover from the devastation of multiple hurricanes in recent years.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Three Gulf Coast states are getting $1.9 billion in federal grants to help recover from hurricanes and floods over the past two years and become more resilient to climate change, the U.S.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A drive-by shooting has killed a 6-year-old girl who was watching TV in her house in southwest Louisiana, police said Monday.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana port owes $124.5 million to owners of a $50 million-plus grain export terminal because the port failed to get federal permits for dredging required by its lease, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) — A change in the planned location for jury selection prompted a delay in the trial for a Louisiana woman charged with murder in the burning death of her son.
CAMERON, La. (AP) — Construction of a new artificial reef off the coast of a southwest Louisiana city has been completed.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Lake Charles city council has approved $3.1 million in improvements to the city’s drainage system, which came under heavy pressure in recent years during repeated heavy rains, including two hurricanes.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Jack Crozier Watson, who was a Louisiana Supreme Court justice from 1979 through 1996, has died at the age of 93.
Zydeco musician Chris Ardoin says it has taken time to recover his creativity after being shot last summer.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities are investigating shootings by police at opposite ends of south Louisiana.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A former state district judge who also served on an appellate court in Louisiana has died while under hospice care.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Officials in a southwest Louisiana parish have announced a new task force to fight human trafficking.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than $148 million for Louisiana teacher pay raises, $500 million toward construction of a new Mississippi River bridge at Baton Rouge, and a $550 million replenishment of the state’s pandemic-battered unemployment trust fund are part of the new state budget proposal outl
BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Three men from southwest Louisiana are in custody in north Louisiana accused of robbing a man who had just cashed an $1,800 check.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A Louisiana city is planning to provide 35,000 utility customers with new, automated water meters over the next 16 to 18 months.
LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Local officers in southwest Louisiana shot and killed a man who was shooting at them early Tuesday, Louisiana State Police said.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Relatives of a 14-year-old girl who died when an oil storage tank exploded in February have sued the company that operated the tank.