The news comes one year after the Louisiana Legislature passed a bill giving the state more power over public defense.

Louisiana's black bear became part of American culture when President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot one that had been trapped and tied to a tree.

Board member Adrejia L. A. Boutté speaks during a Louisiana Public Defender Board meeting at the Capitol on Thursday, March ...

who works in Tensas, Madison and East Carroll parishes. Fuller is the president and AndrePont the secretary of the Public ...

Last year's hunt yielded perhaps the largest black in Louisiana when Deron Santiny of Lafayette landed the 696-pound male bear in Tensas Parish. Louisiana's black bear population all but ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has reported a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula ...

LDWF said this is the first case of CWD confirmed positive in a wild deer outside of Tensas Parish. CWD was first detected in Louisiana in 2022. LDWF said this latest positive brings the total ...

A year after the Louisiana Legislature passed a controversial ... Deirdre Fuller of Rapides Parish and John Hogue of East Carroll, Madison and Tensas parishes. Ward and AndrePont contend the ...

LDWF has reported a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula Parish, marking the first positive outside of Tensas Parish and bringing the ...

Wyoming's Horse Creek becomes the 4th elk feeding ground in the state to test positive since January, and Louisiana's ...

who works in Tensas, Madison and East Carroll parishes. The five testified multiple times before the state public defender boards and the Louisiana Legislature raising concerns about Starns ...