LATEST INFO
The state will soon be pushing the locally elected officials of Powhatan out of the way to administer the finances of the northwest Louisiana village that in mid-July had only $105 in its general fund and is hiring a cop to drum up some money from…
LAKE CHARLES – Gov. John Bel Edwards and FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell visited this battered city to mark a year since Hurricane Laura and view halting rebuilding efforts on Thursday, but the trip was overshadowed by warnings of the possibili…
Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said Wednesday that he won't be seeking to expand absentee-by-mail voting, increase the early voting period or enact a coronavirus emergency plan for the fall elections, amid the state's latest COVID-19 surge.
Resources
State workers and students in Louisiana likely will soon have to show proof of immunization, or an exception to being vaccinated, now that the federal Food & Drug Administration fully approved Monday one of the COVID vaccines.
Despite pressure from House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and others, leaders of Louisiana's top school board defended their handling of last week's chaotic meeting and said there are no plans to hold a special gathering to discuss mandatory face masks…
“They can’t arrest all of us,” the Rev. Tony Spell, of Central, shouted last week spurring an angry crowd of people who refused to don masks at a hearing convened to decide whether the governor has the authority to order school children to wear ma…
Following two weeks of record-shattering COVID hospitalizations, Louisiana saw a glimmer of hope in its battle against its fourth and worst surge of the deadly virus on Friday when the number of patients hospitalized dropped for the second day in a row.
Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins has once again threatened someone on Facebook with violence.
Louisiana regulators approved emergency rules Thursday to jump-start the ability for adults to wager on sporting events in Louisiana by midway through the upcoming football season.
The New Orleans Saints will give refunds to season ticket holders who want them due to the vaccine mandate and mask rules in place for home games this season, the team announced Thursday.
The last of six recall petitions promised last month against the Ascension Parish Council was filed Wednesday as Dal Waguespack became the latest member to face a threat to his seat.
U.S. Rep. Troy Carter has asked the Biden administration for third-party monitoring of air emissions in the Mississippi River corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans — and for money to study the cumulative impact of those emissions on public health.
When a sprawling mess of neon-colored, battlefield-style obstacle courses started growing between houses on a residential road in Walker, some Livingston Parish officials were concerned — but there wasn’t much they could do about it.
Top health official heckled by anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers as misinformation spreads amid COVID surge
As doctors and nurses battle against the worst wave of COVID-19 to befall Louisiana, public health officials struggle to combat a pervasive ally of the virus: misinformation.
People receiving food stamps in Louisiana will see a bump in their benefits – about $155 more for a family of four – starting Oct. 1 because of change at the federal level, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday.
A crowded committee room at Louisiana’s Capitol broke out into pandemonium early Monday morning after one simple request: put on a mask.
Louisiana's health care system nearing 'major failure' under COVID surge, says Gov. John Bel Edwards
Grappling with an unprecedented flood of COVID-19 patients, Louisiana’s hospitals are struggling to provide the public with the most basic levels of care — and are quickly approaching catastrophe.
Louisiana capped off its vaccine lottery incentive Friday by awarding a whopping $1 million grand prize and five $100,000 scholarships.
Republican congressman says it's up to Democrats to secure disaster aid money
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.
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…