The Louisiana Department of Health covered $103 million in ineligible Medicaid costs according to a newly-released audit ...

A bill making it a crime to intentionally give someone an incurable, sexually transmitted infection, such as herpes, is ...

A bill that would ban "chemtrails" has passed in the Louisiana state House of Representatives, clearing the way for it to go ...

Louisiana lawmakers pushed a bill through the state House of Representatives to ban so-called “chemtrails” over the belief ...

The Louisiana Legislature on Tuesday passed a ban on kratom, an herbal substance that critics describe as a public health ...

From new criminal justice reforms to teacher raises and election integrity bills, see what’s already passed and what’s still ...

After the holiday weekend, lawmakers will return to Baton Rouge Tuesday to begin the seventh week of the regular legislative ...

“Water fluoridation is a safe, effective and equitable public health intervention that has been proven for over eight decades ...

But Tamika Thomas-Magee, a nurse and the director of clinical services at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, which operates health centers in Louisiana, said she believes the law is being used as a ...

Baton Rouge-based Judge Jewel Welch denied the Louisiana attorney general's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by opponents of the law.

Under the legislation, the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) is required to license and regulate laboratories and production facilities that test medical marijuana products in the state ...