South Mississippi was under a heat advisory on Monday, with temperatures in the mid-90s and a heat index of 110.

While the menhaden industry is touting the findings with regard to redfish mortality from the LGL Ecological Research Associates menhaden bycatch study, conservation folks say the number of dead redfi ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Doctors in Louisiana say more and more teenagers and pre-teens are getting diagnosed with ...

A contagious new COVID-19 variant called NB.1.8.1, aka "Nimbus," is now dominant in the United States, CDC data show. What to ...

Opioids accounted for 86 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the state with the highest overdose mortality rate.

The U.S. is having its worst year for measles spread in more than three decades, and the year is only half over.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the ...

A coalition of doctors’ groups and public health organizations sued the U.S. government on Monday over the decision to stop ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention July 7 announced ( it is streamlining H5N1 bird flu updates with its routine ...

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has confirmed Louisiana’s first human case of West Nile virus (WNV) of the 2025 ...

(AP) - Kentucky has its first measles outbreak of 2025, as the U.S. case count sits just short of a 30-year high.