Although there have been no charges against officers involved in the shooting of Alton Sterling, who died one year ago today, the U.S. Department of Justice investigation appears to have been sharply critical of the actions of the two Baton Rouge …

Since the 1970s, Louisiana has held to a simple rule: pick roads for repairs based on objective factors, such as wear and tear and traffic counts. While the highway priority program is a good bit more complex than that, that plan pioneered by then…

After last year’s summer of violence and flooding in south Louisiana, residents needed a calmer vacation season in 2017. But the recent news cycle has brought strange echoes of 2016, reopening old wounds.

In recent months, Americans here and across the country have winced at video from various police stops that call into question whether officers did the right thing.

To borrow a phrase from industry, continuous improvement has to be part of the mantra for education leaders in schools across the state.

His constituents, and those appearing before his court, almost needed a play-by-play commentary to keep up with the games played by their judge, J. Robin Free.

As a historic trading partner with Cuba, Louisiana is poised to benefit from a more normal relationship with the island, long in the grip of an outdated Communist government and under resulting trade restrictions with the United States.

Among the unfortunate legacies of the administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal was the continual raiding of the state's highway funds to pay for the operating costs of State Police.

There's a drop in the price of oil, and then there's a long drop. Even veterans of the industry probably were as surprised as the stock markets when oil went down to almost $43 a barrel for U.S. benchmark crude.

Advocates for the poor and working families appear to be most agitated by a new health care bill springing from the U.S. Senate's back rooms and being fast-tracked to a vote.

The old saying is that it is an ill wind that blows no one any good, and even Tropical Storm Cindy might be said to have some benefits, or at least a potential positive for Louisiana.

In times of adversity, you learn how many friends you have, and that is certainly true for Steve Scalise.

Tropical Storm Cindy, the first major weather event of the Gulf of Mexico storm season, is now upon us, and once again it is time for hurricane preparations.

Amid a wearying legislative session on the budget, precious little was done to restore state finances. But although it will take time to mature, a landmark package of bills aimed at whittling away at the state's prison population could be good for…

A veteran of State Police, Kevin Reeves, is the new superintendent. We congratulate him after decades of service, because it is a special position for a career public servant who started as a motorcycle trooper in Baton Rouge in 1990.

The Legislature this year could have done one thing to make Louisiana roads better: raise the gasoline tax for the first time in 28 years.

That seemed to take forever.

When U.S. House Whip Steve Scalise was shot during baseball practice at a Virginia playing field Wednesday, he became the second Louisiana member of Congress to face a gunman while in office. The first was U.S. Sen. Huey Long, who died after a con…

In his successful 2014 bid to become majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican Steve Scalise, of Metairie, gave designer baseball bats made in Louisiana to his colleagues. The bats, crafted by Marucci Sports in Baton Rouge, ca…

It’s Flag Day, the official observance of America’s emblem, adopted by the Continental Congress on this date in 1777.

Louisiana sports fans are now drawn to the Midwest, as the LSU Tigers head to the big dance of college baseball in Omaha.

The Louisiana Legislature is not a place for the squeamish when it comes to rhetoric, but even lawmakers listening to state Sen. John Milkovich had qualms the other day.

For generations, Louisiana operated under the depressing assumption that its Legislature could not manage itself. Governors hand-picked top leaders of the House and Senate, with lawmakers generally acquiescing to the wishes of the chief executive.…

In the 2017 Legislature, passing the budget bills for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was supposed to be the easy part.

When you've got plastic paid for by friendly donors to your department, why not use it? For a major at Louisiana State Penitentiary, it appears to have been too tempting, given his urgent need for sunglasses and a couple of La-Z-Boy recliners.

In the adult world, if you don’t do your work when you’re supposed to, you don’t get to charge overtime to do what you should have done all along.

In the final week of a frustrating and largely fruitless legislative session, lawmakers adopted a symbolic resolution to “affirm the need for civility in political discourse.”

In response to the controversy surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans, the St. Tammany Republican Parish Executive Committee is urging veterans not to visit the city, including trips to the National World War II Museum.