The cost of living in Natchitoches sits approximately 15% below the national average, making that $1,800 monthly budget stretch like a Louisiana drawl. Housing costs here would make big-city dwellers ...

The back and forth on day 23 of the government shutdown comes as the two parties are at a protracted impasse with no signs of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is now in Japan for his first meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, an early diplomatic ...

A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials Tuesday seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans ...

American history stretches back thousands of years through indigenous civilizations, then layers in centuries of colonial ...

The River Road Flea Market in Jefferson, Louisiana, stands as a testament to the time-honored tradition of “one person’s castoffs are another’s must-haves.” You know that feeling when you find ...

Louisiana was accepted by Congress as a state on April 30, 1812, however, the territory had been occupied more than 100 years before its statehood. Spain is attributed as the first European nation to ...

H ARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - On October 20, 1803, the US Senate would ratify the Louisiana Purchase, adding a large amount of ...

Louisiana knows how to turn a meal into a celebration. Across the state, all-you-can-eat buffets overflow with crawfish ...

The oldest cemetery in the U.S. is said to be the Myles Standish Burial Ground, which dates back to approximately 1638. This may be the oldest maintained cemetery, but there are burial mounds that ...

For nearly three decades, the small town of Mansfield was represented in Louisiana’s congressional delegation by white Republicans, even though its population is about 80% Black and leans heavily ...