WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy found bipartisan agreement on offering working Americans paid family leave at a Wednesday subcommittee hearing he chaired, with conservatives and liberals chiming in favor of doing something.
The first formal debate about splitting the Lafayette City-Parish Council into two bodies turned personal within minutes.
WASHINGTON — When Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh heads into confirmation hearings, it will be relatively familiar territory.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and current personal lawyer for President Trump, thrust himself into Louisiana’s 3rd Congressional District primary on Monday with an endorsement for Josh Guillory, who faces long odds against first-te…
President Donald Trump has endorsed U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins in his re-election bid, a day after a report about Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani's connection to Higgins' opponent's campaign.
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Supreme Court Associate Justice Greg Guidry is the White House's choice to fill a vacant federal judgeship in the United States Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, two sources with knowledge of the appointment proce…
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Republicans in Congress largely stand behind President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” immigration enforcement policy, even as a growing chorus of critics attack the White House’s prosecution decisions that have led to the s…
Lafayette City-Parish Council members fumed Wednesday about what they see as the council’s exclusion from critical discussions affecting the Lafayette Police Department, which falls under council oversight.
WASHINGTON — House Majority Whip Steve Scalise said Tuesday he won't be running for governor of Louisiana in 2019, ruling himself out as a potential candidate to unseat Gov. John Bel Edwards.
A state grand jury on Friday indicted Iberia Parish Clerk of Court Michael Thibodeaux on 14 corruption-related counts, including racketeering, theft, malfeasance, falsifying public records and perjury.
WASHINGTON — Steve Scalise has been hitting the campaign trail hard, chasing dollars and votes for Republican colleagues across the country ahead of a difficult November midterm election.
WASHINGTON — If U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy gets the chance, he's ready with a long wish-list of changes he'd like to make to the American health-care system.
WASHINGTON — Discussions over the future of the National Flood Insurance Program have picked up on Capitol Hill over the past week, the first recent signs of progress toward an overhaul ahead of an approaching July 31 deadline for Congress to rene…
WASHINGTON — Sugar growers scored a sweet victory on Capitol Hill over big candy and soda manufacturers on Thursday as Louisiana lawmakers and other opponents easily sent a proposal to gut sugar subsidies down to a bitter defeat.
WASHINGTON — After weighing the decision for months, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy joined U.S. Senate Democrats in passing a measure Wednesday to restore Obama-era “net neutrality” internet rules aimed at ensuring equal treatment for all web traffic.
Lafayette voters will be making a decision on Nov. 6 whether to approve two new property taxes to help fund the parish courthouse and jail.
WASHINGTON — It'll be vacation cancelled for the U.S. Senate this summer if Louisiana GOP senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy get their way.
For the first time since its birth in the Jim Crow era, a Louisiana law that allows juries to return non-unanimous verdicts in felony trials will go directly before state voters in a referendum, after the state House of Representatives voted 82-15…
The Lafayette City-Parish Council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to propose property tax increases on the Nov. 6 ballot.
The ambush attack that left House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and several others seriously wounded shocked the country and much of the world.
Once seen as a long-shot darling of liberals, a bill that would allow Louisiana voters to decide whether they want to require unanimous jury verdicts in all felony trials now has a real chance of clearing the Legislature, thanks to its surprising …
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's long-awaited plan to bring down drug prices, unveiled Friday, will attempt to boost private competition and increase price transparency but drops some of Trump’s earlier pledges to strong-arm the pharmaceutica…
WASHINGTON — The stack of paper to the right of New Orleans Congressman Cedric Richmond stood about a foot tall.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday visited University Hospital and Clinics in Lafayette to rally support for keeping it open.
Although he voted for Donald Trump, Marc Straus of Boca Raton, Florida, emerged beaming from the Penthouse Club in New Orleans on Wednesday night after his brief encounter with Stormy Daniels, the president’s Louisiana-bred porn star antagonist.
Louisiana native and adult film star Stormy Daniels, who has alleged she had an extramarital affair with President Donald Trump in 2006, will appear at the Penthouse Club in New Orleans at 9 p.m. Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Kurt Engelhardt of New Orleans is officially getting a promotion to the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
WASHINGTON — The federal farm bill, a periodic and sprawling reauthorization of an array of government agricultural and rural development programs, is facing a growing battle on Capitol Hill over proposals to stiffen work requirements for food sta…
WASHINGTON — A raft of changes to federal disaster policy, including a number directly affecting those hit by the 2016 Louisiana floods, are now sitting before the U.S. Senate for the second time in the past six months after clearing the House of …
Gov. John Bel Edwards says he supports the effort to require that juries must return unanimous verdicts for convictions in Louisiana felony trials, a move that would bring the Bayou State in line with every other state in the nation save Oregon.
WASHINGTON — The "jambalaya" served alongside lamb by White House chefs at Tuesday night's state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron didn't resemble what they serve down in Louisiana, guests told The Advocate.
WASHINGTON — With the flourish of a marker across a huge human-sized check, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Thursday signed off on the first major tranche of federal offshore oil revenue earmarked for Gulf states.
WASHINGTON — French President Emmanuel Macron's long-anticipated visit to Washington has included a number of nods to Louisiana, the U.S. state with perhaps the deepest ties to France and French culture.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Stuart Kyle Duncan to a lifetime New Orleans-based seat on the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, overcoming objections from Democrats and liberal groups.
The Lafayette City-Parish Council on May 15 will consider whether to ask voters for property tax increases, which proponents say is the only way to prevent the parish from going belly up.
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy will be among the roughly 150 White House guests for a Tuesday night state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron.
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Paul Ryan's decision to retire at the end of the year touched off speculation, especially in Louisiana political circles, that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise might be a frontrunner to replace him.
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Kennedy has placed a pair of the country's biggest banks in his crosshairs over new policies that placed restrictions on gun-selling bank clients in the wake of a deadly Florida school shooting.
WASHINGTON — Wendy Vitter’s long and outspoken advocacy for outlawing abortion made her one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial picks for a federal district court judgeship. Kyle Duncan’s record of battling all the way to the Supreme Co…
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins more than quadrupled the cash in his campaign war chest during the first three months of 2018, raising substantial donations after posting anemic fundraising figures last year.
More than 100 Louisiana-based banks could be freed from a range of federal regulations if Congress passes a major rollback of banking rules put in place in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Steve Scalise, who was badly wounded by a gunman at a GOP baseball practice 10 months ago, was undergoing a planned follow-up surgery on Monday.
WASHINGTON — Among the bluntest questions for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a congressional hearing Tuesday came from Louisiana's Sen. John Kennedy, who took shots at the company's privacy protections in his brief, 5-minute window.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is consolidating three Acadiana offices into a building it recently purchased on Dulles Drive in Lafayette, despite some local opposition.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making a handful of tweaks to the National Flood Insurance Program to inject more private money into the government-dominated flood insurance market.
WASHINGTON — The federal government will be sending more than $1.2 billion in grant money to pay for flood-control and prevention projects in the state, Gov. John Bel Edwards and U.S. Rep. Garret Graves announced Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Among the items tucked into the 2,232-page, $1.3 trillion federal budget deal passed by Congress on March 22 are several provisions that will directly affect Louisiana.
A district attorney’s office that can prosecute only murder cases. State judges suing the parish governing authority. A prisoner wresting a gun from a guard in a courthouse hallway.
WASHINGTON — The sudden and mysterious death of whole tracts of a marsh grass along the Louisiana coast have raised alarm among scientists and prompted fears of speeding erosion of the state's already shrinking coast.
