Piper Hutchinson

Scholarships and budget balancing are the main ways athletics programs at Louisiana colleges plan to use their allotments of gambling tax revenue under a new state law, but their exact spending might never be known because the law doesn’t require...

Nunez Community College in Chalmette has received a $1 million donation to enhance and increase its technical training programs, one of the largest gifts in the school’s history. The Lowe’s Foundation, the private giving arm of the popular home improvement...

The leader of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System said he plans to entice more young Louisianians to pursue workforce training by opening a charter school that would allow high school students to attain credentials alongside their diploma. LCTCS...

Students in Louisiana will soon be able to receive federal grants, once exclusively available to attend four-year schools, to take part in short-term workforce training programs. But strict reporting requirements could make it difficult for programs to remain eligible. Beginning...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said there will be fallout for New Orleans officials following now-rescinded criminal charges against Murrill. Murrill and Landry said during a Wednesday news conference that although t he special prosecutor has...

LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin took his family to Boca Raton using his private airplane travel benefits at a cost of $40,000 to LSU donors, according to LSU Board of Supervisors documents . Kiffin’s employment contract allows him 65...

U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, has sent a letter to the Trump administration condemning proposed federal grant rules that would give political appointees the power to decide what scientific research gets funded. The proposed rules were published by the...

Louisiana’s colleges and universities will soon have the option of offering a digital student identification card through LA Wallet, a cell phone app that allows Louisiana residents to carry official government documents digitally. A new law goes into effect Aug...

The mayor of New Orleans says the city is withdrawing its request for a loan approval to maintain city services after it became clear the state intended to deny it. The approval was slated to go before the State Bond...

LSU President Wade Rousse and Gov. Jeff Landry are co-hosting an event for LSU athletics’ top donors at the governor’s mansion next month on the financial future of the athletic department. The event will occur the first week of August...

LSU has fired its chief financial officer, the vice president in charge of handling sex-based discrimination complaints and its former diversity, equity and inclusion staff in what campus leaders say are cost-reducing layoffs. Twenty five employees were let go last...

Anyone who helps student-athletes negotiate name, image and likeness deals in Louisiana now has to register with the state. The requirement took effect last month after Gov. Jeff Landry signed Act 895 . The new law, authored by Sen. Patrick...