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 ...

OBERLIN, La. (NEXSTAR) – The board of a Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff’s deputy is holding an emergency meeting Thursday to remove a whites-only provision from its sales ...

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 ...

The Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation has built a database of roughly 8,500 historic cemeteries across the state and invites people to submit information about gravesites yet to be documented.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Older cemeteries in Louisiana are sometimes built on top of and forgotten, but one new program is aiming to change that through spreading awareness and creating a database.

SLIDELL, La. (WGNO) — The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery is a solemn site, but you should see what it looks when each grave marker also has a holiday wreath. “Wreaths across America is designed ...

Yet with centuries of archeological artifacts and one cemetery visible on Mississippi River maps from the 1800s, independent ...

The American Cemetery, esteemed as the oldest cemetery in the Louisiana Purchase, stands as a testament to the state’s rich tapestry of history. This sacred ground offers visitors a unique journey ...

A south Louisiana police department has launched an investigation after several headstones and urns were damaged or displaced at a cemetery over the weekend. In addition, some of the graves at Denham ...