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Advocates hope that a bill winding through the Legislature will improve the skills of teachers for students with dyslexia amid questions on just how many children are grappling with the condition.
When the vote count is completed Saturday night, and barring a tie, either Jordan Faircloth or Brad Myers will have been elected as a 19th Judicial District Court judge.
The Republican majority in the House Labor committee voted Thursday – four times – against establishing a minimum wage and setting the rate above $7.25 per hour.
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Facing stiff opposition from Louisiana’s business and oil and gas industry lobbies, a state senator on Wednesday shelved a bid to enshrine in the state constitution local government’s newly won authority over the state’s most generous corporate ta…
Problems worked out with local governments, the Louisiana House advanced legislation Wednesday that would ask the state’s voters, again, to centralize the collection and distribution of state and local sales taxes.
The Louisiana House voted Wednesday to advance legislation that would place the Sewerage and Water Board under the direct oversight of the New Orleans City Council.
After toying with the idea of banning law enforcement officers like Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre from owning ignition interlock companies, a House panel on Wednesday changed course and instead advanced a bill aimed at expanding the use of …
A renewed bid to ban paddling and other forms of corporal punishment in public schools won approval Wednesday without objection from the House Education Committee.
Though it doesn't apply to religious-based “conversion therapy,” a bill that would have banned the controversial practice was stalled Wednesday, largely because of the opposition of conservative Protestants.
Legislation that would authorize $4 billion in state aid for public schools and $1,500 pay hikes for teachers won approval Wednesday in the House Education Committee.
The Louisiana Legislature is looking to fix a law created last year that was supposed to make it easier for abuse victims to sue institutions like the Catholic Church. Instead, it might have imposed unintended restrictions on the very litigation i…
In the fifth installment of the 2022 Louisiana Survey, released Tuesday, residents say the most common barrier to having broadband internet is the cost of the service.
Bills to limit actions state and local governments can take to control COVID-19 continue to advance in the 2022 legislative session.
Leaning on the nationwide crime wave, a state Senate committee without objection advanced legislation Tuesday to repeal the “Raise the Age" law and send 17-year-olds to adult prisons – even though five of the senators on the panel backed the law w…
Lawmaker shelves proposal that would allow surgical castration of certain sex offenders in Louisiana
A lawmaker on Tuesday shelved a proposal that would have allowed judges in Louisiana to order certain sex offenders undergo surgical castration.
The sponsor of a bill that would allow public school students to use taxpayer dollars to leave and pursue a private school education or other options shelved her measure Tuesday.
Hopes that Louisiana’s government will expand the number of businesses allowed to grow and dispense medical marijuana have hit a snag.
Taxpayers on Monday evening got their first detailed look at 10 possible sites for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, just weeks before the list is trimmed to three.
Still smarting over their inability to spike the governor’s COVID-19 emergency orders, the Republican majority in the Louisiana House on Monday again sought power to cancel similar declarations through legislation that the governor has twice vetoe…
Cedric Richmond, who left a safe seat representing New Orleans in Congress to become a top adviser to President Joe Biden, is resigning his White House post to become a strategist to the Democratic National Committee.
A state leader's bid to curb speeding on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge cleared its second hurdle Monday when the Senate Finance Committee endorsed it without objection.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, among the longest-tenured lawmen in the state, hasn’t been mentioned publicly as state lawmakers debate a wide-ranging bill that would overhaul the state’s DUI laws and expand the use of so-called interlock devices.
Spencer Hudson was making drinks March 20 behind the bar at the Cat’s Meow in the French Quarter when he crumpled dead to the floor, shot in the chest by a stray bullet that was fired at someone else outside on Bourbon Street.
While the Louisiana House has voted to water down Gov. John Bel Edwards' plan to spend $500 million for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Edwards and other advocates say they are confident the project will get a major injec…
The Senate Committee on Education unanimously advanced a bill Thursday that would stop the reporting of household income for TOPS recipients.
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is pushing to transfer oversight of several important historic buildings, including the state Capitol, as well as a multi-million dollar fund aimed at attracting major sports events to the state, to the lieutenant go…
The Louisiana House approved pay raises for schoolteachers and college faculty Thursday but not for local police and firefighters, as it passed the bill laying out the $38.6 billion state operating budget for next fiscal year.
Louisiana is getting $5.9 million from the latest round of federal aid to assist low-income families with cooling and heating costs, the White House announced Thursday.
While a majority of Louisiana residents are confident in the elections in the state, trust in local news organizations has plummeted.
The Louisiana House Wednesday night approved legislation to prohibit governmental discrimination based on vaccination status – taking aim at efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic.
It took all of five minutes Wednesday for the House Judiciary Committee to strike Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from Louisiana’s list of legal holidays.
The Louisiana Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would pave the way for the Mississippi River bridge project and three others to get $50 million per year in motor vehicle sales tax revenue that the Legislature authorized last year.
The state Senate advanced a bill 36-0 Wednesday that would provide financial support for new and existing post-secondary education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Touching his inner musical nerd, House Speaker Pro Tem Tanner Magee took the first step Wednesday in a long cherished personal goal of creating a museum that meshes the civil rights era with New Orleans' position – not Memphis – as the birthplace …
A bill that would double what retired public school teachers could earn if they return to the classroom breezed through the House Retirement Committee on Wednesday.
Gov. John Bel Edwards' plan to alleviate traffic on Interstate 10 by providing a passenger train service between Baton Rouge and Sorrento could be headed off the rails.
Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday began a push to expand the state’s fast-growing medical marijuana program, with a House committee approving several bills to increase the number of pharmacies that are allowed to sell the drug.
With little debate, the Louisiana Senate on Tuesday evening backed a measure that would prohibit transgender girls from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.
For the fourth time since 2017, legislators refused to abolish the death penalty in Louisiana.
The growth in the number of non-traditional students at Louisiana colleges and universities means a significant portion are going without food periodically, higher education leaders said Tuesday.
After years of effort, the Gulf Fritillary, scientifically known as the agraulis vanillae, is well on its way to becoming Louisiana’s official state butterfly.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy has raised nearly 20 times as much money as his two Democratic challengers combined, according to the latest campaign finance reports.
Arguments over Gov. John Bel Edwards' proposal to spend $500 million for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge escalated Monday, with a key House committee watering down the proposal and one of Edwards' key lieutenants arguing t…
Louisiana House lawmakers on Monday released their multibillion-dollar spending plans for next year, advancing budget bills that earmark more than a billion dollars in federal pandemic aid, give teachers a pay raise and spend millions on local pet…
Voting along party lines, Republicans in a Louisiana House committee supported landlords over disabled people who want out of their leases because they claim to be no longer able to use or access their apartments.
If one thing rings true about the Louisiana Legislature, it’s full of irony-impaired lawmakers.
As Hurricane Ida hurtled toward south Louisiana, Paulette Tybussek, a resident of Jefferson Parish, weighed her options: “Do you put your life at risk and stay? Or do you evacuate?”
The special election to replace New Orleans state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson will be held in November, Senate President Page Cortez decided this week.
Luke Mixon, a long shot Democrat for the U.S. Senate, is airing an online ad that attacks Sen. John Kennedy for voting to reject presidential electors after a mob stormed Congress in January 2021 to try to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as…
State Sen. Sharon Hewitt said she probably won’t decide for months whether she’ll run for governor next year.
State Rep. Stuart Bishop is tired of the pollution that befouls Capitol Lake and the trash that lines its banks.