Lousiana

Major chains including JoAnn Fabrics, Party City, and Walgreens have shuttered thousands of locations across Louisiana and Texas as the retail apocalypse intensifies, with all JoAnn and Party City stores now permanently closed.

A Livingston Parish resident has been hospitalized with West Nile virus — the first human case in Louisiana this year. Here's what you need to know.

After talking to someone from out of town we realized that Louisiana has a tasty wedding tradition that not many people partake in elsewhere. It may be a Southern thing, but it is absolutely a Louisiana tradition. Anyone who attends a wedding reception expects there to be a wedding cake of some sort but here in Louisiana not only do we have a traditional wedding cake but we also have a groom's cake.

Louisiana has a beetle problem and it's so bad that our Legislative House created an "emergency beetle subcommittee" to deal with it.

If you're looking for extra money with not a lot of extra effort, here are a few jobs you can easily pick up in Louisiana.

Before your next encounter with an eight-legged nightmare, take a look at the five most dangerous spiders in Louisiana so you know exactly what you're dealing with.

He started eating crawfish when he was around 2-years-old and by 4, he was already an expert mudbug peeler.

Do you know what Louisiana's state drink is? What Marie Laveau's day job was? Do you know why Canal Street in New Orleans is named Canal Street? We've got the answer right here.

Check out some of our favorite off the beaten path gems here in the Bayou State.

Looking for some truly haunted places in Louisiana? Just in time for Halloween, we've got some really scary places for you to explore, right here at home!