Fourteen hours after his work day began, Devance Ball’s phone rang.
It wasn’t too long ago that Louisiana’s congressional delegation wielded much more power on the national stage than a state this size has a right to expect.
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What do Steve Gleason, Tulane University, the chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party, and the former superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department have in common?
The state has lost more than 2,000 square miles of its coast since the turn of the 20th century.
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley proposed Thursday that students in kindergarten, first, second, third and fourth grades who are not reading on grade level be required to undergo 30 hours of summer remediation or repeat the grade.
The federal and state trustees holding the purse strings for an unprecedented diversion project to help rebuild Louisiana's disappearing coast released a report Wednesday signaling they are likely to approve the plan that will cost as much as $2.26 billion.
Attorney General Letitia James wants Donald Trump and his business to pay at least $250 million.
Unprecedented project intended to help Louisiana rebuild its disappearing coast.
Jeff Landry steps into legal fight over Trump's handling of top secret documents found at Mar-a-Lago
Attorney General Jeff Landry has stepped into Donald Trump’s legal fight with the Biden administration over Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving office.
In the first television advertisement for his long-shot bid to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, Luke Mixon, a self-described "pro-life" Democrat, promises to push to enshrine abortion rights in federal law.
Louisiana’s budget outlook is bright going into Gov. John Bel Edwards’ final full year in office, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said Tuesday.
A state appellate court has agreed that the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board did not break a state law when it split three precincts in the nine-member election map the board narrowly approved in May.
The project would mimic the processes that created southern Louisiana in the first place, sending as much as 7 million tons of sediment into Barataria Basin each year
More than a half-century after concerns were raised, the area still not been cleaned up.
A key legislative committee Friday approved a $95 million payment to families and businesses in Tangipahoa Parish that suffered flood damages in 1983 caused by the construction of Interstate 12.
An effort to return Capitol High School, which has spent 14 years in state control, back to local control took an important step forward Thursday as the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board voted unanimously in favor of the return, subject to the …
The money was spent on a volleyball facility at a university the football star and the governor attended.
After a two-month delay, the State Bond Commission on Thursday gave the go-ahead for a $39 million New Orleans drainage project that got entangled in abortion politics.
Teachers for Louisiana’s youngest learners are plagued by low pay, high turnover and rising rates of depression, officials said Wednesday.
Louisiana Citizens Insurance Corp., the state’s insurer of last resort, wants to raise its already-high prices by more than half, following a dramatic increase in demand for coverage after eight private insurers collapsed and nearly a dozen others exited the state.
WASHINGTON — Upending the political debate, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced a nationwide abortion ban Tuesday, sending shockwaves through both parties and igniting fresh debate on a fraught issue weeks before the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
Despite huge budget and political hurdles, a key House committee Tuesday began to study the possibility of eliminating Louisiana's individual and corporate income taxes.
Students with disabilities are being denied key services because of a troubled data system at the state Department of Education, special education leaders said.
Fewer Louisiana residents have access to high-speed internet than almost anywhere else in the nation — largely because of politics.
State Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley's two-year tenure has been marked by unprecedented upheaval in the classroom, pitched battles with the board that hired him and a penchant for wading into controversy.
Nationally, the number of women registering to vote in the Nov. 8 congressional midterm elections has shot up like a rocket — energized, experts say, by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent abortion decision.
The former New Orleans mayor was remembered, eulogized and buried Saturday.
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The former New Orleans mayor spawned a political dynasty and served in all three branches of government, at all three levels.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry appears to be using his annual alligator hunt, his biggest annual political fundraising event, to launch a long-expected bid for governor, passing out “Team Landry Governor” garb to attendees.
The Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners voted unanimously Thursday to immediately terminate the agency's executive secretary after she was arrested on gun and drug charges earlier in the week.
Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96.
He becomes oldest person to assume British throne.
Charles is now the king of England.
An animated horror comedy featuring Danny DeVito as the voice of Satan is "clearly evil," says a Republican congressman from Louisiana whose Facebook post denouncing "Little Demon" had reached millions of people by Tuesday morning.
President Joe Biden tapped a Baton Rouge native to become ambassador to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the White House announced Wednesday.
Despite calls to clean house at the beleaguered state agency in charge of looking after vulnerable children, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday that he supports the efforts being made by the head of the Department of Children and Family Services to address a series of missteps that include the deaths of some children.
The head of the state agency that regulates private security companies was arrested on drug and weapons charges, and the board that oversees it will meet Thursday and consider whether to fire her.
A funeral service for former Mayor Moon Landrieu, who died Monday at the age of 92, will be held Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Most Holy Name of Jesus Church, 6367 St. Charles Ave., followed by a Mass at 1 p.m.
Nikiesha Thomas was on her way to work one day when she told her sister that she was thinking about getting involved with domestic violence prevention.
Revenue from Louisiana's gasoline tax is insufficient to meet the state's road and bridge needs, Legislative Auditor Michael Waguespack said in a report issued Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) — Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. They were greeted outside by the head of the local Republican Party, who was involved in efforts by then-President Donald Trump to overturn his election loss.
Rapidly growing Zachary will have a new mayor this winter, and each of the three candidates for that post say relieving the city's traffic problems will be a priority in a new administration.
A popular fishing area along the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet and the rapidly disappearing Raccoon Island are among the new projects.
In Mississippi's capital city, 150,000 residents are without drinkable running water and will be for the foreseeable future after floodwaters from a swollen Pearl River caused an already struggling water plant to fail.
Louisiana is considering whether to overhaul its electric market to break up the monopolies that have controlled power generation and distribution in the state for decades, a possibility that has created battle lines between massive petrochemical …
U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins may have thought a prior marriage was well behind him, but it seems once again to be poking into his campaign.
Amid Louisiana’s historic teacher shortage the state has a backlog of about 6,500 aspiring teachers and other educators awaiting paperwork so they can enter the classroom or take on new roles, officials said Friday.
While state leaders were in Alexandria Wednesday celebrating Louisiana’s efforts to bring high-speed internet to rural areas, some of those slated to be connected worried in Baton Rouge that the whole project could be brought down by protests large telecommunications companies have made against the winning bidders.
This story was published in The Times-Picayune on Oct. 6, 2007. Gorbachev died Tuesday at 91.