BY DEANNA B. NARVESON | Staff writer Name change: Effective Monday, the Louisiana National Guard Training Center Pineville will once again be called Camp Beauregard at the direction of Gov. Jeff Landry, the Guard announced. Dating back to 1917, the name of the military installation previously honored Confederate Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard. But the name Camp Beauregard was changed in 2023 to Training Center Pineville, following a trend of removing references to Confederate soldiers. The new Camp Beauregard name is for a different military leader, one who served in the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Read the full story here. What budget? Six months into Gonzales Mayor Tim Riley’s term, his administration is in a standoff with some city council members over the proposed general fund budget. On Monday — 44 days into the city’s fiscal year without an approved budget — the council again voted against the proposal. Read the latest. New scientific discoveries: It took less than a second for the space observatory hidden in Louisiana woods to detect the most massive black hole ever observed. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory in Livingston recently detected a collision of two massive black holes creating a binary black hole with the largest mass ever observed in space. This discovery challenges the theories that astrophysicists and astronomers have about how black holes form. Read the latest. | 