Helicopter flew over more than 150 locations, spotted emissions from 47 sources at 29 facilities.
WASHINGTON — Baton Rouge Congressman Garret Graves, who is frequently being named as a possible candidate for governor, was linked Thursday to a GOP leadership post that some say may end talk about his seeking to replace Gov. John Bel Edwards.
WASHINGTON – Candidates in the race for Louisiana governor have descended on Washington Mardi Gras to raise money and make their pitches to the state’s political and business elite in social setting far from home.
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WASHINGTON – Fourteen Louisiana mayors, legislators and community leaders were invited to the White House Wednesday to kick off Washington Mardi Gras.
The likely Republican candidates for governor have each said that they’re in or out, except one: Garret Graves, the congressman from Baton Rouge.
With three days to go until the Krewe of Chewbacchus ushers in four weekends of Carnival revelry, Mayor LaToya Cantrell gave New Orleans its Mardi Gras wish on Wednesday: All of the big parading krewes will be able to return to their full, pre-pandemic routes.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
LAKE PROVIDENCE - Small towns are dying, conventional wisdom says, and newspapers are right next to them in the hospice ward.
John Bel Edwards showed the Democrats’ path to the Governor’s Mansion in both 2015 and 2019 — have the party unite behind a single person, watch the Republicans tear each other up in the primary and then defeat the wounded GOP candidate in the runoff.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Sunday called a special session of the Legislature to grapple with Louisiana's property insurance crisis.
WASHINGTON — State and local government officials from across Louisiana are heading to the Washington Mardi Gras this week and their top question for the state’s congressional delegation is “what do we do now?”
WASHINGTON — Seeming to come out of left field, President Joe Biden last week blasted Republicans for pushing legislation that would abolish federal income taxes and the Internal Revenue Service then replace those revenues with a 30% or so national sales tax.
State Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon pleaded for a special session to tackle Louisiana's property insurance crisis but faced a flurry of skeptical questions Friday from state lawmakers.
Dora Jean Edwards, the mother of Gov. John Bel Edwards, has died, the governor's office said Friday. She was 87.
A federal judge has ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to consult with federal wildlife officials on the impact the opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway has on fish habitat.
WASHINGTON – Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome discussed ways to address crime with mayors from major cities around the nation during a whirlwind trip this week to the nation’s capitol.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said Wednesday more talks among state leaders are needed before any decision is made on a possible special session on property insurance.
WASHINGTON — The countdown toward a possible U.S. government default is in the offing, and frictions between President Joe Biden and House Republicans are raising alarms about whether the United States can sidestep a potential economic crisis.
Louisiana's $2 billion pharmacy contract for state workers means more than 5,000 employees will have to find new pharmacies, Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack said Wednesday.
State Rep. Richard Nelson, a first term 36-year-old Republican from Mandeville, said Wednesday he is running for governor.
The Louisiana Republican Party’s decision to endorse Attorney General Jeff Landry nearly a year before the gubernatorial primary is continuing to stir controversy, with the party’s director warning U.S. Rep. Garret Graves not to join the race and …
In December 2020, as former President Donald Trump was spreading baseless theories that the election was stolen from him, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows received a text from a Louisianan who has been making allegations about election fraud fo…
Stuart Brown has spent lots of time looking into the future of Louisiana's coast.
WASHINGTON — Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was quietly mentioned as a candidate for the speaker of the House during the weeklong Republican fight for the chamber’s top job.
The devastating storm remains the costliest hurricane ever, with inflation-adjusted damages totaling $190 billion.
The Legislature will likely hold a special session next month to address Louisiana's property insurance crisis, Senate President Page Cortez said Saturday.
The Louisiana Republican Party made an unprecedented decision to endorse Attorney General Jeff Landry for governor, nearly a full year before the primary election, and well before the field of candidates was settled.
On Jan. 1, the Louisiana Department of Health released preliminary grades for 954 community water systems around the state. The grades are part of a new program in which the state issues yearly grades — similar to those for schools — for water systems around the state.
For years, Opelousas residents have complained about their city’s antiquated water system, in which leaks under streets cause potholes and brown water flows from their faucets.
State Sen. Sharon Hewitt, a Slidell Republican, announced Friday she will run for governor, capping a week of highly anticipated entries into the race to succeed Gov. John Bel Edwards.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed a special counsel to investigate the presence of documents with classified markings found at President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and at an office in Washington.
A state lawmaker said Thursday that he is preparing legislation on police chases in the wake of a Dec. 31 chase that left two Brusly High School students dead.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Wednesday advanced two abortion measures that Republicans call needed protections and Democrats say would further criminalize the procedure.
WASHINGTON — After a week of chaos and 15 votes to choose a speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the slim Republican majority took firm hold of the lower chamber this week to pass controversial measures on party-line votes.
One lane on a stretch of eastbound Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge will be closed between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. from Jan. 16-18 as part of preliminary work on the widening of the interstate, officials said Wednesdsay morning.
Capping a dramatic fall from grace, longtime former state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson was sentenced Wednesday to 22 months in federal prison for taking more than $140,000 from the state Democratic Party’s coffers and from her own campaign account to gamble at casinos.
Longtime former state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson will be sentenced in federal court at 10 a.m. Wednesday, more than five months after she pleaded guilty to taking more than $140,000 from the state Democratic Party’s coffers and her own campaign account to gamble at casinos.
Louisiana has more than 85,000 newly rural residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which last year revised decades-old methods of defining what counts as urban in the United States.
The field for the Louisiana governor’s race came into much sharper focus Monday, with one of the best-known would-be Republican candidates announcing his entry and another announcing he plans to stay put.
Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser is set to announce he is not running for governor and will instead run for re-election this year, a surprise decision that comes after months of hinting he would run for the state’s top job.
State Treasurer John Schroder told supporters Monday he is running for governor.
Louisiana might seem an unlikely battleground for claims that the 2020 election was rigged to steal the election from then-President Donald Trump. After all, Trump won Louisiana’s electoral votes by a huge margin, garnering even more votes here th…
WASHINGTON — Before the U.S. House spiraled into the dysfunction of serial elections to select a leader, Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise released a packet of eight bills and three resolutions on which the lower chamber would focus in the first two weeks under Republican control.
WASHINGTON — Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected House speaker on a historic post-midnight 15th ballot early Saturday, overcoming holdouts from his own ranks and floor tensions that boiled over after a chaotic week that tested the new GOP majority’s ability to govern.
Conducted online Tuesday through Thursday, The Times-Picayune Power Poll asks questions of the top Jefferson and Orleans parish influencers in business, politics, arts, media, nonprofits and community affairs. It is not a scientific inquiry, but it does afford non-partisan insight into the thoughts and opinions of those who steer the region. Of 1,380 Power Poll members surveyed this week, 190 voted, for a participation rate of 14%.
For the second straight year, higher education, public school teachers and roads and bridges are poised to be the big winners amid booming state revenue.
Louisiana’s draft 2023 coastal plan calls for spending $50 billion over the next half century to build a slew of coastal restoration and flood protection projects and reduce annual storm surge damage by as much as $15 billion.
Chase Melancon, the newly elected chairman of the Ascension Parish Council, says he'd like to see a change in the way the local governing body runs its oversight committees, as a few members continue to air concerns with the parish administration'…
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy would have been the big fish in the governor’s race this year.
WASHINGTON — Louisiana’s Republican representatives have stayed true to House speaker front-runner Kevin McCarthy over two days of maneuvering, but his failure to take the top spot in Congress despite six votes has sparked talk of finding a compromise candidate — including his second in command, Steve Scalise.
In January 2024, newly elected members of the St. James Parish Council will receive the first raise members of the local government panel will have gotten in nearly 26 years.