Most people can count on a $600 check from the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package Congress passed late Monday night. The unemployed will receive $300 more in benefits, even Amtrak gets $1 billion.
The legislative auditor says Gov. John Bel Edwards may not be getting complete-enough information on COVID testing to accurately determine the positivity rates used to decide when masks need to be worn, what businesses can open when and visitation…
The Louisiana Supreme Court has vacated a judge’s ruling that a petition used by state House Republicans to revoke all of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ coronavirus restrictions is unconstitutional, saying the judge prematurely ruled on the constitutional…
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In February, weeks before Louisiana would discover its first case of COVID-19, the Louisiana Department of Health sent out letters to 24,000 Medicaid recipients, warning they would be kicked off the rolls if they didn’t respond and prove they qual…
That Louisiana’s Republican congressmen won’t acknowledge Joe Biden’s victory — even after the Electoral College voted decisively last week — is more political calculation than “Profiles in Courage.”
Louisiana lawmakers Friday reshuffled $16 million in federal coronavirus aid to unemployment payments and mobile devices for schoolchildren, in a rush to spend all the dollars before an end-of-year congressional deadline.
A key legislative panel Thursday gave state transportation leaders the authority to pursue a new bridge of up to $800 million – 125 miles west of Baton Rouge.
Congressman-elect Luke Letlow disclosed Friday he has the coronavirus, becoming the third major official in Louisiana in three days to announce he had been infected.
Legislators began Thursday looking at changes to state law that would address inaccuracies in the registry that alerts neighbors that someone convicted of sex and/or child predatory crimes lives nearby.
When a Baton Rouge judge last month ruled a last-ditch effort by House Republican lawmakers to overturn Gov. John Bel Edwards’ virus restrictions was unconstitutional, it appeared the governor was mostly done defending his virus rules after a seri…
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday said a lawsuit supported by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry seeking to overturn millions of votes in the presidential election was “unfortunate,” as the Democrat urged people to accept President-elect Joe …
Top official in Jeff Landry's office put on leave amid investigation into violation of office policy
A top official in Attorney General Jeff Landry’s office is on leave while the agency investigates an “office policy” violation after a complaint filed by an employee.
The public will get its first look at 15 possible crossings for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge in the spring of 2022, officials said Monday.
Republicans cast Louisiana's eight electoral votes for President Donald J. Trump during a ceremony Monday in the state Senate.
Presidential electors to vote Monday
Nearing the two-year mark, a state panel trying to find ways to build a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge has little to show publicly for its efforts.
Louisiana's coronavirus fund spending: $178M to private contractors at New Orleans convention center
Before shutting down the medical facility at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center last month, Louisiana’s government shelled out more than $400,000 for each patient that arrived at the facility since April, representing about half of the total a…
Despite President Donald Trump’s efforts, all 50 states by Tuesday had certified the vote from the presidential election that took place nearly six weeks ago. Democratic candidate Joe Biden received 7 million more votes than the Republican incumbent.
Dawn Gray, who lost the election, vowed to challenge the results.
Longtime attorney and former prosecutor Carson Marcantel is making a second bid for a vacancy on Baton Rouge City Court.
With the first health workers in Louisiana expected to get shots of a new COVID-19 vaccine as early as this weekend, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday said as many as 159,000 people could receive the first of two injections by the end of December,…
Louisiana will wait until mid-January to update its income projections to account for the latest effects of the coronavirus outbreak, delaying a traditional pre-holiday forecasting meeting amid continued economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a statement supporting the State of Texas’ request that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the electoral votes in four states that went to President-Elect Joseph R. Biden.
Legislators are accepting a reimbursement rule change that puts money in the pockets of the politically powerful nursing home industry and anger in the hearts of advocates for the elderly.
Sharon Weston Broome widened her margin of victory in Saturday's runoff by 10 percentage points compared to 2016 when she also faced off against a Republican to secure her first term as mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish.
International business magnate Elon Musk was one of the big winners in the federal auction to provide high speed broadband in rural Louisiana.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's top elections official on Monday recertified the state's election results after a recount requested by President Donald Trump confirmed once again that Democrat Joe Biden won the state, his office said.
Voters on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would allow out-of-state residents to serve on the LSU Board of Supervisors and three other higher education boards.
Luke Letlow, who served as the top aide to outgoing U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, easily won the election Saturday to replace Abraham to represent the sprawling 5th Congressional District.
Eric Skrmetta won his third and final six-year term on the utility-regulating Public Service Commission on Saturday night.
Voters in East Baton Rouge Parish selected two judges Saturday, one for the appellate court and another for the state district court.
Republicans maintained their 7-5 edge on the East Baton Rouge Metro Council on Saturday, retaining three seats after Democrats forced runoffs in an attempt to shift the parish's governing body to the left.
Sharon Weston Broome won another four years as East Baton Rouge Parish's mayor-president Saturday, defeating former State Rep. Steve Carter in a runoff election.
Back in mid-October, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy was effusive about President Donald Trump’s fast-tracking of a COVID-19 vaccine that now will become available by the end of next week. “There will be the highest praise,” Cassidy said Oct. 11.
Once the polls close at 8 p.m., election results for the Baton Rouge area and Louisiana will gradually update. While we wait, here's live commentary from City Hall reporter Blake Paterson.
Louisiana voters will head to the polls once again this weekend to vote on a statewide constitutional amendment, a new East Baton Rouge mayor-president, council members and more.
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council is on track to see its largest turnover in more than a decade, and depending on the results in Saturday's runoff, could see a significant shift in the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats.
RUSTON — Little on the surface distinguishes the two candidates vying for the last undecided race in the U.S. House of Representatives – the runoff is Saturday – in a district that stretches from Bastrop in northeast Louisiana through Bunkie, sout…
Public safety and police pay were the topics that reverberated the loudest during the final debate Thursday night between Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome and former state representative Steve Carter.
The candidates for East Baton Rouge mayor-president will face off tonight in their final debate before Saturday's runoff election.
Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder tested positive for COVID-19 before Thanksgiving and experienced breathing difficulties this week that required him to be admitted to the hospital, making the Republican one of more than 1,300 Louisianans hospital…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards secured his re-election last year after a heated battle with Republican Eddie Rispone, who was backed by President Donald Trump. But Edwards is not done politicking yet.
After paying some the highest electricity bills in the nation 13 years ago, Louisiana consumers now pay the lowest rates, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
The fall special session held by Louisiana lawmakers to debate COVID-19 rules and hurricane recovery issues carried a taxpayer-financed price tag of more than $1.1 million, according to spending information provided by the House and Senate.
Amid Louisiana's third surge of the coronavirus outbreak, craft brewers and bar owners Wednesday told lawmakers that Gov. John Bel Edwards' COVID-19 restrictions are damaging their operations and threaten to bankrupt their businesses.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said Wednesday the voter-approved MovEBR program will break ground on 21 jobs in 2021, including seven road construction projects aimed at relieving congestion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines are headed to Louisiana and elsewhere.
The advertising war between East Baton Rouge mayoral candidates has heated up in recent days, with the incumbent criticizing her rival for a plan to reallocate parks and library funding and the challenger saying his opponent's four years in office…
A number of local items are on the December 5 ballot in the greater Baton Rouge area.
Newly-elected 19th Judicial District Court Judges Christopher Dassau and Will Jorden won't take the bench until early January, but they haven't been sitting around basking in the glow of their Nov. 3 wins.