BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana’s 2026 U.S. Senate race is accelerating into a marquee Republican primary, with incumbent Sen. Bill Cassidy facing a growing field of challengers ahead of the state’s newly restored partisan primary elections.  Among the Republicans seeking the seat is Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming, a physician, military veteran, and former U.S. congressman who has positioned his …

 Meta’s Hyperion AI data center will sprawl to four times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park  Meta has quietly purchased roughly 1,400 acres—an area almost twice the size of Manhattan’s Central Park—adjacent to its already-mammoth 2,250- acre Hyperion AI data center site in Richland Parish, La., Fortune has learned. The combined land parcels for the campus will bring the project …

 PURSUIT ENDS WITH K9 ASSISTED ARREST AND DISCOVERY OF FIREARM  On February 5, 2026, at approximately 930 PM, deputies with the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle within the city limits of Farmerville. The driver failed to stop and fled, leading deputies on a pursuit through Union Parish and into the Marion area.  …