On the morning of January 13th at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana lawmakers will be sworn into office for the start of their four-year terms.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Reps. Cedric Richmond and Mike Johnson had another chance Wednesday to try to make their respective parties' case on the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The secret balloting process the Louisiana Senate intends to use next month would hide members’ votes for Senate president and is unconstitutional and should be repealed, the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana said in a new commentary.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Garret Graves has taken an interest in military justice cases involving officers accused of war crimes, including one that recently culminated in President Donald Trump’s pardon of a military officer convicted in the deaths…
WASHINGTON — The impeachment saga continues with a hearing Monday where attorneys for House Democrats and Republicans will present Judiciary Committee members with information about the allegations against President Donald Trump.
Three weeks after winning a tight reelection, Gov. John Bel Edwards was in a playful mood as LSU prepared Thursday to head for Atlanta to contest the SEC championship — a position that five months ago most fans thought improbable.
Today in The Rundown: Welcome back to the post-holiday Rundown with a supersized edition with so much news: Updates on Trump impeachment, Gov. John Bel Edwards' inauguration plans, Louisiana Legislature leadership shuffle and everything else you n…
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WASHINGTON — Louisiana U.S. Reps. Cedric Richmond and Mike Johnson reflected the partisan divide that gripped the House Judiciary Committee's tense impeachment hearing on Wednesday.
Football has won out over politics in Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ inauguration festivities, with the newly-reelected governor scrapping the traditional inaugural ball because the college football national championship game is slated for the s…
WASHINGTON — Two Louisiana congressmen will have front-row seats as the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump enters its next phase.
Aside from what the $380 million expansion of Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge will mean for traffic, homes and construction delays, another issue is triggering worries: What happens to all the trees in the way of the work?
WASHINGTON — An Assumption Parish native has been confirmed as the new head of the powerful U.S. Department of Energy.
More than two dozen of Louisiana’s motor vehicle offices remained closed Monday as state workers continued to respond to the lingering effects of a cyber attack that hit state servers two weeks ago.
The trade war between the U.S. and China is forcing many Louisiana farmers to question whether they’ll continue to grow soybeans next year as the federal aid package keeping them afloat by offsetting their losses isn’t covering all their costs.
Jefferson Parish has more Republicans than any other parish in the state.
Newly elected state Rep. Danny McCormick ran on many issues, but his main one is protecting his way of life.
CROWLEY — Like practically everyone else here going back decades, Bryan Borill registered as a Democrat when he turned 18 in Acadia Parish in the late 1970s.
The redistricting that will take place after the 2020 census, determining the shapes of the congressional and state legislative districts in Louisiana, was not a staple issue on the campaign trail for governor in the race that ended earlier this month.
State Sen. Page Cortez, a Republican from Lafayette, has secured enough votes among his colleagues to become the next state Senate president, three senators confirmed Friday.
When Gov. John Bel Edwards rode to reelection earlier this month, he dashed the hopes of some St. George supporters that one of their own, Eddie Rispone, would hold new power to stand up the city that residents in the southeastern part of East Bat…
WASHINGTON — Drug prices. Surprise Medical bills. Trade deals.
WASHINGTON — It was a classic quip from Louisiana's quotable junior senator.
Baton Rouge architect Coleman Brown said Monday traffic on Interstate 10 can be improved by spending far less than the state's $380 million plan and that closing the Washington Street exit is one of the keys.
WASHINGTON — After facing a backlash, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy on Monday walked back comments he had made a day earlier questioning whether Ukraine — and not Russia — interfered in the 2016 presidential election by hacking the Democratic National Co…
More than 46,000 people lost their Medicaid coverage this month, because they didn't respond to letters warning they didn't appear eligible for the government-financed insurance.
Lines wrapped around the corner early Monday morning with people waiting to get into the Baton Rouge Office of Motor Vehicles for the first time in a week after a ransomware attack crippled state government computer systems.
State officials plan to re-open eight of its main Office of Motor Vehicles locations Monday, a week after a cyberattack crippled Louisiana state government computers and websites.
Elections are over. The governor is a Democrat, and the Legislature is mostly Republican.
Early one Sunday morning in October, four political advisers passed through the white front doors of the Governor’s Mansion.
Monday’s ransomware attack, which crippled about 10% of the state’s computer network servers just hours after votes were tallied in statewide elections for governor, legislative seats and other positions prompted many to look for intrigue, a legis…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who won reelection Saturday in a tightly-contested race that drew national attention, said Thursday he will push for new investments in early childhood education, teacher pay and colleges, as well as continue a so-…
The 79 locations for the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles won't re-open until Monday, following a weeklong closure in order to reimage computers attacked by ransomware.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has appointed to the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy Sajal Roy, who earlier this year was simultaneously suing the board over his lost bid for the coveted exclusive medical marijuana pharmacy permit in New Orleans as well as a bo…
Today in The Rundown: Details on the breakdown of how Gov. John Bel Edwards won a second term; the more conservative Louisiana Legislature he faces: Edwards' call with President Donald Trump; and everything else you need to know in Louisiana polit…
WASHINGTON — During their most recent nationally televised debate, Democratic presidential candidates were asked how they feel about Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ position as an anti-abortion Democrat.
WASHINGTON — David Joseph, the U.S. attorney who recently prosecuted a former Louisiana state prison warden and the warden's ex-wife in an elaborate scheme using public funds for personal purchases, has been nominated to the federal bench.
The Office of Motor Vehicles will remain closed, perhaps through much of Thursday, but state employees will get paid on time Friday as state technical workers continue to repair the computer system after a ransomware attack early Monday morning.
Days after narrowly losing the governor’s race to incumbent Democrat John Bel Edwards, Republican Eddie Rispone’s campaign leaders said they had doubled down on its strategies to nationalize the race by painting Edwards as a liberal and going nega…
WASHINGTON — Louisiana representatives in Congress split along party lines in a crucial House vote on Tuesday to prevent the federal government from shutting down this week.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Kennedy wants more information released publicly about the circumstances of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, alluding during a Senate hearing to a conspiracy theory that the wealthy sex offender might not have killed himself.
WASHINGTON — An effort to give Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states a bigger cut of offshore energy revenues has cleared its first hurdle.
The effects of a ransomware attack on Louisiana’s state government Monday that crippled some public-facing agencies stretched through Tuesday, as motor vehicle offices throughout the state remained closed and workers scrambled to reboot computer systems.
GONZALES — The editor of a local website agreed Monday to permanently take down a story about Murphy Painter that the onetime candidate for Ascension Parish president said used a misleadingly edited recording to make it sound as if Painter was inv…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Garret Graves is pointing to recovery hurdles Louisiana faced in the wake of historic flooding in 2016 and other recent disasters in arguing for a major overhaul in how federal long-term recovery efforts are handled. But he'…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent weeks bashing Gov. John Bel Edwards as a “tax-and-spend liberal” and “socialist,” and calling into question Edwards’ well-documented opposition to abortion and support for gun rights. But with the 2019 gov…
Louisiana has its first confirmed death from a vaping illness that has swept across the country in recent months, one of more than 40 deaths reported nationwide as officials continue to investigate the causes.
Louisiana's state government came under a ransomware attack Monday that caused internet and website problems at a host of agencies, disrupting motor vehicles offices and other public-facing departments statewide.
Former Southern University Board of Supervisors member Walter Dumas and his now-defunct law firm must pay the state ethics board $138,000 for using an A.W. Mumford Stadium suite for three years without paying the rental fee, an appeals court has r…
Insurance businessman Scott McKnight won a seat in the Louisiana Legislature during Saturday's election, claiming the Baton Rouge-based House District 68 seat that Rep. Steve Carter had held since 2007, according to complete but unofficial returns.
As Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards enters his second term, he’s going to have to work with a Legislature that has more Republicans and more conservatives than he had to deal with during his first four years.
Gov. John Bel Edwards had to check off three boxes to win re-election Saturday over businessman Eddie Rispone, after narrowly falling short in the primary.