A Louisiana official is under investigation for allegedly getting $780,000 to buy a house and jobs for his children from an organization to which he helped award a contract from the state, doc…
Gov. Jeff Landry wants to enact the most sweeping overhaul of Louisiana’s tax system in 50 years next month, with a series of changes which he said Tuesday would revitalize a state that has no…
A federal magistrate judge in New Orleans has reversed course and will allow three environmental groups and a Buras charter fishing company to intervene in support of the proposed Mid-Baratari…
“Conservative voices are being silenced on college campuses across our country, and Louisiana will not stand for it,” Landry said in a social media post on Tuesday.
"I think that the opportunity to bring our mascot back on that field is an unbelievable opportunity," Landry told reporters gathered at LSU on Tuesday.
Charles Boustany spent 12 years as a Republican representing Acadiana in Congress.
The cluster of buildings forms a community unto itself in the heart of New Orleans' Central City.
After years of lagging pay and staffing shortages, Head Start educators in Baton Rouge are poised to see pay raises soon under a proposal pending approval by the federal agency that oversees t…
As always, the monthly Pineville City Council meeting began and ended with a prayer on Sept. 10.
East Baton Rouge Parish voters will soon decide whether to switch from a chief administrative officer solely appointed by the mayor to a city-parish manager also approved by the Metro Council.
Budget cuts to the already-embattled and understaffed Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services could mean gutting the agency’s emergency shelter programs and diminishing child abus…
Gov. Jeff Landry appointed the personal attorney of his close confidante Shane Guidry as chairperson of the Port of New Orleans and the Public Belt Railroad, using newly expanded powers over s…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the two Louisiana pols in charge of the lower chamber for the past 11 months, left Washington to ca…
The death of a South Korean influence peddler several days ago calls to mind one of the many political scrapes involving Edwin Edwards, Louisiana’s notorious four-term governor who died in 2021.
Aly Rau, a former assistant secretary for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services, will now serve as deputy secretary for that agency, officials announced this week.
The practicing physician, a rural family medicine doctor, told state lawmakers he is not currently recommending Covid-19 vaccines to his patients.
WASHINGTON – In November, Acadiana U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins likely will receive a vote on being censured by the House for a social media post about Haitian migrants that drew widespread condemna…
T. Jay Seale, III, a Hammond business attorney appointed to the Regents by John Bel Edwards in 2017, said the appointment was "illegal" and "offensive."
A monthslong battle came to a head Wednesday night, when Metro Council members approved the termination of a 10-year-old agreement allowing the Scotlandville High School Alumni Association to …
Lawmakers are preparing for the fiscal fallout from a 2021 Louisiana law which could trigger automatic tax rate cuts next year that would widen an anticipated budget shortfall the state is alr…
With a little more than a month until the Baton Rouge mayoral election, the gloves are off and the race is getting fiery.
Jacques Thibodeaux, director of Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, told a panel of state lawmakers Wednesday that the agency received “an inquiry” in March from…
WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus moved Wednesday to censure Acadiana U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins for calling Haiti the “nastiest country" in the Western Hemisphere, adding that immigrant…
Now that St. George has officially become Louisiana’s fifth-largest city, it is clear that East Baton Rouge Parish will need to start handing over St. George's share of tax money.
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