Leigh Guidry

A $1.2 million grant is funding the creation of a free environmental justice curriculum for Louisiana students.

With gas so high, generator use could be especially costly if a storm the size of Hurricanes Laura or Ida makes its way to Louisiana this year.

A second-place finish at state earned the team a spot at the national competition, the Junior Beta Robotics Showcase, in Nashville.

WalletHub crunched the numbers to rank the best and worst school systems in America, and it did not go well for Louisiana.

“We have to come up with better ways of retaining the talented people we have — to grow the home team,” economist Gary Wagner said.

An art teacher and ceramic artist in Kaplan became a soap maker with help from her husband’s beekeeping and gardening hobbies.

“Everybody can stand to have more colorful things nowadays,” Lafayette native Emily Spikes Shannon said. “Things are too neutral.”

“To inspire and educate through the arts, that is our mission. While we are the university’s art museum, we’re also the community’s museum.”

Dusty Reed’s showroom includes paintings and his mixed media pieces, the sharp angles and bright colors affirming his nickname “the Cajun Picasso.”

As families prepare to send their children back to school this fall, are there enough teachers to welcome them?