These days, populist rage is all the rage, whether it's a reaction to health-care reform, Wall Street bailouts or federal spending.

Fourth-grader Tyrik Debou reads a lesson in class at Banneker Elementary School in New Orleans.The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Wednesday backed a formula with a 2.75 percent boost for each public school student.

This session, Louisiana lawmakers will deal with at least two proposed laws designed to reduce the number of people who drive while talking on a handheld phone or while texting.

The rail line that runs between New Orleans and Orlando, Fla., hasn't been in service in five years.

New Orleans police are investigating a shooting death in the St. Claude neighborhood Saturday night.

The New Orleans coroner says a Houston energy executive drowned in the Mississippi River, and apparently hit his forehead as he fell from a steamboat dock.

Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina damaged New Orleans' Algiers Regional Library, it's going to be torn down and a new library built.