In a move sure to spark controversy, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Friday asked legislative leaders to move $175 million in unspent dollars for small businesses to help shore up Louisiana's dwindling unemployment fund and for local governments.
A Baton Rouge lawyer who lost a recent City Court runoff by a 2-1 margin, then claimed in a lawsuit that the victor was too old to serve, was told this week that her appeal of a unanimous lower court ruling was filed too late.
The proposed $5 million settlement in the civil suit filed on behalf of Alton Sterling's five children is off the table for now, but one member of the East Baton Rouge Metro Council said she plans to reintroduce it for consideration at the end of …
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Pilloried with angry criticism and accusations of nefarious intent, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin had a more human reason for the state’s online voter registration website being down on the evening of National Voter Registration Day.
Gov. John Bel Edwards endorsed East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s re-election bid Wednesday, reaffirming their longtime friendship but at the same time alienating a state Capitol ally a week before a special legislative session.
PORT ALLEN — Voters in Donaldsonville will likely go to the polls on Nov. 3 without knowing the outcome of a felony theft charge pending against a leading challenger for city mayor after a West Baton Rouge Parish judge delayed a scheduled trial.
When colleges around the country closed down earlier this year to slow the coronavirus contagion, higher education officials fretted that fall enrollment numbers would drop significantly. Many launched task forces to calculate just what that would…
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday the special session should be limited to 10-14 days, not up to 30 days as the Louisiana Legislature is planning, and be restricted to about five topics rather than the 70 on the House and Senate agenda.
The Louisiana Legislature will begin its second special session of the year at 6 p.m. on Sept. 28, legislative leaders said Monday.
Bradley Cryer, the assistant auditor whose job is to check the finances of Louisiana’s cities, towns, and villages, recently brought a stack of papers with color-coded tabs to the Legislature.
It was one of those moments that in hindsight Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter wishes he would have knocked on wood and spit three times as he said on Aug. 19: “We’ll be in decent in shape unless a hurricane hits us.”
In his first detailed statement about a recent federal trial court’s ruling expanding access to absentee mail ballots for the Nov. 3 election, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said in a statement Friday that while disappointed, he is concerned with …
Drainage and small business development are top priorities for the candidates running for the District 4 seat on the East Baton Rouge Metro Council, a position soon to be vacated by term-limited councilman Scott Wilson.
The Louisiana Workforce Commission sent out about 7,600 notices to recently unemployed people demanding they pony up sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in overpaid benefits.
The race for East Baton Rouge Parish mayor-president is unusually competitive this year, with seven candidates vying for the job.
A section of Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge is set to have lanes closed Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, according to the state Department of Transportation and Development.
Louisiana should allow more access to absentee mail ballots for the Nov. 3 presidential elections, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick ruled in a 44-page decision released Wednesday afternoon.
Just 48 hours after things looked dire, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday he is thankful Hurricane Sally will largely slide east of Louisiana after days of anxious planning for a second potentially deadly storm.
More than 20,000 East Baton Rouge Parish voters have requested mail-in ballots — more than three times the number in 2016 — and Registrar of Voters Steve Raborn says those ballots could start going out in the next few weeks.
John Bel Edwards warns Louisiana to take Hurricane Sally seriously; here's how it could impact state
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday that, while the path of Hurricane Sally has moved eastward, southeast Louisiana remains under the threat of heavy rain, flooding and the unknowns on what any storm is going to do.
Defense lawyer Dele Adebamiji and prosecutor Will Jorden have never squared off against each other in a trial at the 19th Judicial District Court, but now they're going head-to-head for a soon-to-be-vacant seat on the Baton Rouge state court.
A somber Gov. John Bel Edwards and weather experts said Sunday Tropical Storm Sally will turn into a slow-moving, Category 2 hurricane that could arrive with winds of up to 100 miles per hour, triggering power outages and huge amounts of rainfall.
The coronavirus has shut down a lot of in-person politicking in this year's race for East Baton Rouge mayor-president, but with seven weeks remaining until Election Day, and five weeks until the start of early voting, look for the seven candidates…
On a 127 to 51 vote Saturday, the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee chose Katie Bernhardt, of Lafayette, to chair the state party.
A group called Louisiana Wins that backs sports betting will unveil its first television commercial Sunday during the New Orleans Saints’ season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Baton Rouge landed a new city court judge this week and the woman who wanted the post not only lost by a 2-1 margin at the polls, but also lost 5-0 at the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal.
Sharon Weston Broome acknowledges she made some mistakes in her first term as mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish, but says what she learned from those mistakes will make her an even better "servant leader" in a second term.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will have a news conference at 2 p.m. Friday to detail the state's Phase 3 coronavirus restrictions.
Watch: After Donald Trump called coronavirus 'deadly stuff,' Sen. John Kennedy continues to back him
Louisiana U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy in a Wednesday interview continued to back President Donald Trump despite reports that the president was aware in February how contagious and deadly the coronavirus was but knowingly downplaying its seriousness.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will have a news conference at 10:30 a.m. Thursday to address the state's response to coronavirus.
The number of mail ballots already requested for the November presidential election has almost tripled, leaving the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office worried it won’t be able to count them fast enough, according to testimony Wednesday in feder…
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Johnell Matthews was sworn in as a Baton Rouge City Court judge one day after a judge ordered the Secretary of State to certify her victory in last month's runoff election.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday morning that about 90% of Calcasieu Parish, which includes Lake Charles, is without power nearly two weeks after Hurricane Laura struck.
LSU Interim President Tom Galligan Jr. said Wednesday morning he agrees with Gov. John Bel Edwards' view that Tiger Stadium should be limited to about 25% of capacity because of the coronavirus.
Lawyers for East Baton Rouge Parish said a proposed $5 million settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of Alton Sterling's five children is "excessive," according to an email they sent to members of Metro Council members ahead of …
A federal judge was left with little choice Tuesday but to adjourn early for the day in hearing a lawsuit that will ultimately decide how widespread mail ballots will be used in the Nov. 3 presidential election in Louisiana.
A judge Tuesday ordered the Secretary of State to clear the way for the top vote-getter in last month's special City Court election to take office even though the candidate who lost by a 2-1 margin is still challenging the result.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday he is inclined to support placing a limit of 25% of capacity in Tiger Stadium – around 25,000 fans – when the 2020 football season begins for LSU on Sept. 26.
A court hearing is set Tuesday to determine whether the winner of last month's special election to fill a vacant seat in the Baton Rouge City Court should take a spot on the bench while a candidate who received 37% of the vote in the Aug. 15 runof…
It's only fitting that the three lawyers competing for a 19th Judicial District Court seat being vacated by the Baton Rouge state court's second most senior judge have a combined 63 years of legal experience.
Officially Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry are both defendants in a federal lawsuit challenging the proposed plan for the Nov. 3 election.
Candidates running for mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish will gather on stage Sept. 15 for a forum hosted by The Advocate and Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
A week after Hurricane Laura came ashore near Cameron with 150 mile-per-hour winds, the head of Entergy Louisiana, Phillip May, has found himself in the eye of a storm of sweaty, often homeless, southwest Louisiana residents wondering just when th…
Adrian Perkins believes President Donald Trump missed the chance to promote healing during his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday in the aftermath of the police shooting that left a Black man paralyzed and the town full of protesters, includi…
Louisiana’s prisons department has suspended its inmate work crews program from Dixon Correctional Institute after two inmates tested positive for COVID-19, the agency confirmed Thursday, as the prison sees a spike in cases.
A bombastic Republican state representative known mostly for an incendiary social media presence posted, then deleted, an anti-semitic meme that was rebuked by at least one member of his own party.
Two months in and the program aimed at giving front-line workers during the pandemic a one-time $250 stipend has spent about half the money available, sending checks to 95,367 workers and rejection letters to 27,344 applicants, the Louisiana Depar…
Advocates for Louisiana prisoners called Wednesday for the state to select an independent health monitor to track the safety of inmates in the coronavirus outbreak, urging Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration to do more furloughs because of the h…
Baton Rouge City Court Judge-elect Johnell Matthews is "qualified to take office" despite turning 70 before last month's coronavirus-delayed runoff election and passing the mandatory retirement age for members of the judiciary, a state judge ruled…
Masks while voting, polling place changes, more: Louisiana election plan amended days before hearing
A few days before a federal court conducts a hearing over his emergency elections plan, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin announced Wednesday some changes to his proposal for how Louisiana will vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election in light of the…