On the last Monday of January, Ralph McHenry Boudreaux was buried in grave 499 at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell, capping a service steeped in military precision and pomp.

Emily Dalfrey lives across the street from Niblett’s Bluff Cemetery, where generations of her family are buried, in Vinton, Louisiana. In 2016, a period of prolonged rainfall caused flooding so severe ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Memorial Day is coming up and the Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery needs volunteers to help place flags on veterans graves. Their events for Memorial Day weekend are as follows: ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Carver Memorial Cemetery, one of Shreveport’s most historic African American burial grounds, is home to the graves of veterans, business leaders and civil rights activists. But for ...

This article is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public radio stations across the United States. This story, by Eva Tesfaye, was published in collaboration with ...

ZACHARY, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana National Cemetery held a Memorial Day ceremony to honor and remember service members who put their lives on the line to serve our country. “It’s good to see that ...

Lafayette Consolidated Government has formally ordered the owner of a Willow Street cemetery to stop burials and work at the property. City-parish attorney Pat Ottinger sent Kevin Menard, who operates ...

Spreading across a low hill a few miles west of Leesville is a small country graveyard next to a little red brick church. Nestled among the roughly 1,400 burial plots there, near the top of the hill, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW IBERIA, La. (KLFY)– Complaints are ...

UPDATE: After our story ran at 6 pm, the pastor sent us a press release at 6:59 pm. ABBEVILLE, LA - Tavia Johnson’s visit to her mother’s grave was supposed to be a moment of peace. Instead, it turned ...