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Louisiana capped off its vaccine lottery incentive Friday by awarding a whopping $1 million grand prize and five $100,000 scholarships.
LAKE CHARLES – U.S. Rep Clay Higgins says his recent bout with COVID-19 almost killed him, but he has now fully recovered and still opposes mandates on vaccines and mask-wearing.
A Louisiana judge on Thursday rejected a request for a preliminary injunction that would have required the state to resume participation in several federal pandemic unemployment programs.
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A letter urging Gov. John Bel Edwards to rescind his face mask mandate for public school students and supposedly signed by 19 Republican lawmakers has sparked controversy because some legislators said their names were improperly attached to the message.
Sixteen senators and 49 representatives, all Republicans, totally backed National Federation of Independent Business positions on 10 seminal bills during the recently concluded session of the Louisiana Legislature.
The people of Louisiana should know that when the Zombie apocalypse comes, Baton Rouge offers the best chance of survival in this state, according to an analysis of a report by the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
When Sandra Louis lost her job at the start of the pandemic, her first worry was how she would afford insulin to treat her diabetes. Even with health insurance, the life-saving medication costs her $1,500 a month, and Louisiana’s meager unemployme…
A Baton Rouge judge overruled a request for additional time and told lawyers for the Louisiana State Police that he will decide for himself what information the agency can withhold from the public on the personnel file of a state trooper involved …
For many, the Interstate 10 bridge over City Park Lake serves as the entry to downtown Baton Rouge and the state wants your input on what the bridge's replacement should look like.
Amid complaints from residents about loud, dangerous drag racing on Baton Rouge streets, the Metro Council will vote tonight on tougher penalties for race organizers and participants.
In an unusually bipartisan vote, the U.S. Senate approved a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package championed by Louisiana senior senator, Bill Cassidy, who says the state stands to receive $5.8 billion over the next five years for bridges and highw…
GONZALES — A recall petition has been filed against Ascension Parish Councilman John Cagnolatti.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish public works trucks have been delivering loads of dirt from a dredging project to property owned by a company held by the father of first-term Councilman Joel Robert, according to the councilman and land records.
The chairman of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus said Monday House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is the right person for the job but also said he is "utterly disappointed" in Schexnayder for stripping two Democrats of their committee chairmanship…
How's this for a political turnabout. Republicans are chastising Bill Cassidy. Democrats praise him.
Listen to what leading Republicans are saying about U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who sits atop the state’s Republican hierarchy.
Escalating a political feud, state Attorney General Jeff Landry issued an opinion Friday that said Louisiana's top school board has the final say on face mask rules despite Gov. John Bel Edwards' order that students wear them.
As Louisiana’s hospitals buckle under a crushing wave of new COVID-19 infections, the state’s top public health official said Friday the only way the state will blunt its spiraling transmission rates in the short term is if people wear masks indoors.
Amid often strong disagreements among Republicans at the local and national level over how best to respond to a deadly and crippling pandemic, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has rarely wavered in his skepticism.
Drainage concerns helped lead to the filing of a recall petition against Dempsey Lambert, a five-term Ascension Parish councilman who has led drainage efforts in the parish for years, supporters said Thursday.
State officials want the public to cast votes in an online poll on what the new bridge across City Park Lake should look like.
HAMMOND — Kim Schehr didn’t believe she was at much risk of getting sick with COVID-19 when she left for a family vacation to Florida in July.
Prairieville lawyer Aaron Lawler became the third member of the Ascension Parish Council to have a recall petition filed against him in the past two weeks, as some residents revolt over the pace of new developments and their impact on floods and traffic.
LSU won't require its students to get the coronavirus vaccination to attend this fall, but those who don't will have to be tested monthly, the newly installed president announced Wednesday.
Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill being considered before the U.S. Senate Tuesday, Louisiana can expect to receive about $384 million more in 2022 to improve roads and bridges, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy told reporters.
Attorney General Jeff Landry sent a departmentwide email blast to his employees Monday suggesting strategies for getting students out of the mask mandate that will be imposed in K-12 schools — as well as any school vaccine requirements that could …
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said Monday tourism in Louisiana is on the rebound, but a 2020-style shutdown sparked by the coronavirus would be devastating.
When Gov. John Bel Edwards lifted Louisiana’s mask mandate at the end of April, he warned that loosening restrictions wasn’t a “one way street” and that he would reimpose the rules if COVID-19 came roaring back.
The COVID crisis is back, just as schools are reopening, football season is approaching, and the economy is beginning to gather steam.
To vaccinate or not has become the region’s gravest social dilemma.
A new prison standard that became law Saturday allows nearly 3,000 lifers, habitual criminals and old-timers, including armed robbers, to apply for parole that eventually could free them from decades behind bars.
A group of unemployed Louisiana residents filed a lawsuit Friday night challenging Gov. John Bel Edwards’ decision to stop accepting the federal $300-a-week boost to jobless benefits, arguing that the move violates state law and asking the courts …
The recent veto override session lasted only two days after legislators failed to invalidate a single bill rejected by Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Amid a worsening COVID-19 outbreak, Louisiana on Saturday will end its participation in the federal government’s pandemic unemployment programs, cutting off jobless benefits for more than 150,000 residents and slashing payments in half for thousan…
With the highly contagious delta variant ripping through Louisiana and overwhelming hospitals statewide, Gov. John Bel Edwards urged the public on Friday to return to mask-wearing indoors and said he’s “seriously considering” reinstating a mask ma…
Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder has removed two Democrats as chairs of legislative committees, amid calls by some Republicans to punish Democrats who refused to override Gov. John Bel Edwards’ vetoes, which doomed the state’s first-ever v…
A good many of the state government’s nearly 40,000 employees will return to working at home, at least three days a week, if possible, in hopes of lessening exposure to COVID during this fourth surge of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Baton Rouge City Court candidate Carson Marcantel will stay in the race after a state judge Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit that sought to disqualify him.
Last Wednesday, just before the Louisiana House convened for one of the most important votes of his tenure, Gov. John Bel Edwards gave Democratic lawmakers one last pep talk.
A state judge disqualified Baton Rouge City Court candidate Colette Greggs from the Oct. 9 election on Tuesday, noting that, because of where she lives, she isn't even qualified to vote in the contest for the job she wants.
A day after U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins revealed he is ill with COVID, he along with Rep. Garret Graves and Rep. Mike Johnson would not disclose Monday whether they have been vaccinated.
State officials announced Monday they have let a $46 million road project in St. Tammany Parish for the first segment of work voters approved 32 years ago.
Where does Clay Schexnayder go from here?
Angry Louisiana conservatives are looking for reasons why they lost last week’s two-day veto override session that failed to overcome a single bill rejected by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Troy Carter lost congressional races to represent New Orleans in 2006 and 2008 before winning the seat in a special election in April.
State Sen. Ronnie S. Johns, R-Lake Charles, was named Friday by the governor to chair of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, then resigned his Senate seat.
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder said Friday he was confident moments before the vote Wednesday that the Louisiana House would override Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a transgender bill but "three or four" representatives went back on their verbal c…
No stranger to the camera, adult film star, stripper and Baton Rouge native Stormy Daniels will venture into reality TV this fall.
Fueled by frustration over flooding, development and the council's rocky relationship with the new Ascension Parish president, two groups filed papers this week to recall council members Teri Casso and Corey Orgeron.
On Monday, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder made a bold prediction: He was “comfortable 100%” he would have the votes in the Louisiana House to override Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto of a bill targeting transgender athletes, a measure that …
Gov. John Bel Edwards kicked off his monthly call-in radio show just as Louisiana's House neared a vote on overriding his veto of a ban on transgender children competing in sports.
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