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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.
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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…
Two people are trying to get Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards out of office.
Unemployed workers received their latest $300 payment from the federal government on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Workforce Commission said.
State lawmakers Tuesday began studying police practices, including claims that Black citizens represent an inordinate number of those killed by law enforcement both in Louisiana generally and Baton Rouge.
Now that Hurricane Laura has passed, Louisiana politicos are returning to the issue of what role mail-in balloting will play in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
The number of coronavirus cases at LSU surged Monday to 229, a sharp jump over the last five days as the state’s flagship university marches ahead with its in-person fall semester.
Power outages in the Lake Charles area will take about three weeks to repair in the wake of Hurricane Laura, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Sunday that, while gains are being made, restoring power to the Lake Charles area after Hurricane Laura is going to be a "long and difficult process."
Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The…
Like Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, every election day, my wife and I made a point of walking to our precinct. Ardoin gets misty-eyed, so do I, when describing that patriotic feeling of physically casting a vote.
After a 2019 state audit uncovered a series of accounting and oversight problems at River Parishes Community College, state financial watchdogs have again found the school has improperly charged students and failed to fully pursue unpaid bills or …
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Friday he is concerned about the impact of Hurricane Laura on the spread of the coronavirus in Louisiana.
Nearly 300,000 jobless workers in Louisiana received an extra $300 payment in their weekly unemployment payment on Wednesday, the Louisiana Workforce Commission said Thursday.
State Rep. Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, said Wednesday he is dropping his bid to chair the state Democratic Party so he can focus on national politics and improving police practices in Louisiana.
A lawsuit filed by a woman soundly defeated in this month's runoff election claims Baton Rouge City Court Judge-elect Johnell Matthews is "constitutionally barred" from taking office because she was elected after passing Louisiana's mandatory reti…
The chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport delivered a nearly four-minute speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention where he repeatedly praised President Donald Trump for his coronavirus response.
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had members of Congress return to Washington to vote Saturday on a Democratic proposal that would provide $25 billion in funding for the beleaguered United States Postal Service and block further changes in operatio…
Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana’s first female governor, was the most influential woman in the state after passage of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, according to a panel of historians, journalists and others convened by the USA Today Network. The 19…
Louisiana lawmakers have long been quick to bestow praise upon Steve Gleason, even passing laws in the name of the former New Orleans Saint who has become an icon of resilience.
While money and name recognition will play a role in the race to succeed the only Louisiana congressman who isn’t running for reelection in November, the way the 5th Congressional district lines were drawn also will play a decisive role.
The Louisiana Association of Business & Industry, the state’s largest and most influential business lobby, commanded considerable influence over the state Legislature this year, according to its annually released “scorecard.”
On Monday, August 17, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond was one of the politicians given airtime on the first day of the virtual Democratic National Convention.
Former Gov. Bobby Jindal got in a bit of Twitter war last week with U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a favorite target among Republicans.
Hoping to put an end to claims by some sheriffs and parish officials that the Edwards administration has exaggerated the number of positive COVID-19 tests, a legislative committee last week investigated.
Onetime Ascension Parish presidential candidate Murphy J. Painter won access Friday to a 51-minute secret recording, purportedly of his own words, that factored into unfounded, election-time accusations last fall that the former law enforcement of…
The Louisiana Department of Health will scrap multi-billion-dollar contracts for Medicaid services nearly 1.7 million people and restart the bid process, after challenges to the deals tied them up for more than a year.
"E Eric" Guirard says things in East Baton Rouge Parish have to change, and change drastically, before he'd even advise his own kids to stay in Baton Rouge and raise their own families.
Louisiana's civil service director Thursday sought to discourage state senators from criticizing $57 million in state worker pay raises handed out during the coronavirus outbreak, saying the comments damage efforts to recruit and retain employees.
With Louisiana's Republican lawmakers and Democratic governor unable to reach an agreement on an emergency elections plan, the state's elections chief warned Thursday that he may have difficulties administering the fall elections during the corona…
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has tested positive for the coronavirus and is quarantining for 14 days, his office announced Thursday.
The state’s college and university campuses have decided to start publicly reporting positive COVID-19 cases by campus each week, after working with Gov. John Bel Edwards' administration on how to best disclose infection numbers to try to track ou…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to provide information on Louisiana's on-going fight against coronavirus.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to provide information on Louisiana's on-going fight against coronavirus.
Louisiana state lawmakers on Wednesday spent more than five hours debating the best way to handle the November presidential election in the midst of a pandemic, but Louisiana’s elections appear likely to be handled by the courts – or take place wi…
Just a simple change could make up to 20,000 unemployed workers eligible for the extra $300 weekly federal benefit, the Louisiana Workforce Commission announced Wednesday.
Despite long explanations about why publicly reporting positive COVID tests on university campuses is misleading, LSU reversed course and Wednesday began reporting cases on its website.
A former state Alcohol and Tobacco Control commissioner did not invade an ex-agent’s privacy or defame him when he fired him in 2015 for sending racist and sexist text messages to co-workers, a federal appeals court has ruled.
A onetime Assumption Parish political candidate and local business leader has been arrested for a second time in three months on video voyeurism counts.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Tuesday he won’t support the emergency election plan put forth by Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin, setting up a donnybrook with Ardoin and other Republicans that could end up with the federal courts deciding how Louisiana…
A veteran Baton Rouge City Court judge who lost Saturday's runoff for a 19th Judicial District Court seat by just 27 votes said Monday she is "amped & ready" for a Nov. 3 rematch with Tiffany Foxworth.
Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin has proposed a plan for the Nov. 3 presidential election that rolls back mail-in voting significantly from the recently-held summer elections, allowing only one category of people to vote by mail if they do…
Frank Smith III doesn't really want to be mayor-president.
The 16-member LSU Board of Supervisors sat at every other desk in an 80-seat Coates Hall lecture room.
Walking down empty halls, BRCC Chancellor Willie E. Smith kept repeating how full of students they usually were at the Acadian vo-tech campus of Baton Rouge Community College.