While it can’t hold a candle to the populations found in Florida and Louisiana, there are still a fair number of alligators ...

Much of the rest of what became the United States, including Louisiana, was controlled by ... to the United States and purchasing a large plantation in South Carolina, where he collected specimens ...

Louisiana’s education department received over 39,000 applications for a new scholarship program that can pay for private school tuition.

WALLACE, Louisiana — Every year, thousands of people visit the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, to learn about the history of slavery in the state and around the country. Starting in January ...

Louisiana folk artist Clementine Hunter never imagined the humble “markings” she created on cardboard, canvas, and wood would one day sell at auctions for thousands of dollars.

The jails — most of which are operated by private prison companies — hold thousands of people each year. More than 7,000 people are jailed in Louisiana’s immigration facilities. Texas ...

but private donors and groups Feliciana Gardeners and Friends of Rosedown have a large impact on the site’s tourism draw. In 2005, Rosedown Plantation was placed on the National Listing of ...

This means that even private plantations or non-native tree-covered areas can be counted as forest cover. P K Joshi, Professor at School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University ...

Fourteen of the 20 largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in the United States are in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, across the nation’s “deportation alley.” The jails — most ...