January 25 was National Opposite Day, but the weather got a head start on that last week. Florida absolutely shattered its statewide snow record. New Orleans got buried in eight inches of snow as well.

Despite the havoc it is wreaking on the farm, health officials say the risk of the public getting sick is minimal.

A rare winter storm charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday has closed highways and airports and prompted the first blizzard warning for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

Metro New Orleans has received more snowfall since the start of meteorological winter than many cold-weather cities across the country, including Philadelphia, New York and Anchorage, Alaska.

Louisiana’s Office of Juvenile Justice is transferring incarcerated girls to the Ware Youth Center, with which the leader of the state office has a longstanding personal connection.

No human cases of bird flu have been confirmed in New York, but the virus has emerged among animals. Public health leaders are preparing, just in case.

The storm brought both dazzling landscapes of ice and snow and challenges to a city unaccustomed to such severe winter weather.

In fact, Cecilia Kjellgren, the honorary Swedish consul for Louisiana, counts it as one of the highlights of Louisiana's Swedish culture. Though her district also includes Mississippi and Alabama, Kjellgren is based in New Orleans.

Registration for the event is free and begins at 9:30 a.m. on Sat., Feb. 1. Flute Fest will take place in the Magale Recital Hall at NSU. NSU Assistant Professor of Flute, Dr. Stephen Clark, organized Flute Fest.

Popeyes has some fans drooling over a highly exclusive new "Championship Lineup" joining limited menus for one day only in celebration of the Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans next month. However, some are suggesting others "boycott" the chain in response to the options.

Roc Nation’s founder is a rapper, but that doesn’t mean the Super Bowl won’t ever present rock or country. Perez noted that Jay-Z’s wife, Beyoncé, has collaborated with country icon Dolly Parton, and that Reba McEntire sang the national anthem at last year’s Super Bowl in Las Vegas.

Here are some of the deadliest commercial plane crashes in the U.S. since the Air Florida disaster according to reports from the NTSB