How is student learning recovering from COVID?

Has student learning recovered from COVID?

BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer​ ​ ​

COVID caused a lot of students to fall behind in school. So are they getting back on track?

State test scores provide the latest clue. Here's how Baton Rouge-area schools did, and what it might say about how student learning is recovering from all the pandemic's disruptions.

LSU football season is getting close. If you want to get caught up on where the Tigers stand going into their first games under a new coach, columnist Scott Rabalais asked — and answered — some of the biggest questions about the team.

Traiteurs and traiteuses are faith healers who play a colorful and crucial role in traditional Cajun culture. But as that culture slowly, steadily disappears, few people are taking up the mantle.

Here's a fascinating story about a 31-year-old who became a traiteur in a quest to preserve his hometown heritage.