The Advocate was named Louisiana’s best newspaper for the 12th consecutive year by the Louisiana Press Association. The Advocate also captured the LPA’s Freedom of Information award for its successful ...

On May 11, several Louisiana newspapers owned by USA Today’s parent company Gannett, including the Shreveport Times, ran an editorial from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) titled “Is transgender inclusion ...

Marvin Gene Mearns, of Mandeville, a longtime editor of The Baton Rouge Advocate, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Houma Daily Courier, died Dec. 21, 2024. He was 86. Beloved for his steady and gentle ...

In 1985 Elaine Campbell was teaching English at New Iberia Senior High by day and going straight to her second job as a store clerk at the North Gate Mall in Lafayette after last bell. She had a ...

This week we turn the spotlight on a local publication, celebrating the centennial of the Louisiana Weekly, which since 1925 ...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, was criticized on Wednesday by his state's two largest newspapers over contentious remarks referring ...

EXCLUSIVE - Several Louisiana newspapers that are part of Gannett-owned USA Today's network quietly deleted a published op-ed on transgender athletes from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., without notifying ...

From Sandy Hook to Seal Rocks last week, U. S. publishers hailed with delight the U. S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision outlawing the punitive State tax on gross advertising revenue by which the ...

Laura Adelman-Cannon of New Orleans was drinking her morning coffee when her husband abruptly tossed their local newspaper aside. "And I can't believe they published it," Adelman-Cannon recounted her ...