 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer From all over the Baton Rouge region, they poured into the Pete Maravich Assembly Center: Hundreds of adoring fans, from kids to college students to grandparents. They were there to welcome LSU's first-ever national championship basketball team back to Baton Rouge. Here are the plans for a big parade celebration this week. Here are reactions from players as they landed home. Here's how the big game shattered records for viewership. And here's a look at the 700+ text messages Coach Kim Mulkey got — including texts from Archie Manning and some other famous folks.
Across Louisiana, congregations are leaving the United Methodist Church. On the surface, it's part of a global disagreement over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, but the tensions go much deeper than that. Here's a deep-dive into the complex issues and what they mean for one of the country's largest denominations.
The Comite River Diversion Canal is a mammoth project that has been billed as one of the biggest-ever flood prevention projects for the Baton Rouge area. Workers are carving a whole new river from scratch to connect the Comite to the Mississippi. But thanks to inflation and other delays, the cost of the project has skyrocketed. And that raises a serious question: Can Louisiana afford to finish it? | 
