Lawmakers aren’t sure what “sports betting” will look like in Louisiana, who gets to participate and how, when the Legislature convenes on April 12.
Without a doubt, Louisiana is a fossil fuels state whose economy is dependent on the royalties, taxes — an estimated $373 million this year — and the 48,000 jobs oil and gas creates.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy broke with the Republican party in visceral terms Saturday, voting with just six other members of his party to convict Donald Trump on charges of incitement of insurrection and declaring he was putting the Constitution over …
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Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana voted Saturday to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana voted to acquit.
Louisiana was expecting great things once a 5-4 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door in 2018 to levying taxes on sales made over the Internet by out-of-state vendors. But the results exceeded those expectations.
The top two contenders in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond launched basic television ads last week aimed at introducing themselves to voters.
Dominion Voting Systems, the target of unfounded voter fraud claims by supporters of former President Donald Trump, intends to bid for Louisiana's new voting machine contract as it continues to combat the conspiracy theories surrounding its equipm…
Charles Carey was riding his dirt bike through north Baton Rouge in June 2019 when a police cruiser flipped on its lights.
Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency Thursday as heavy rainfall swept across the state and residents braced for potential wintry conditions through the Mardi Gras weekend.
The head of a statewide group of walk-in clinics emailed about 228,000 state employees, retirees, and their dependents across Louisiana, as well as all 144 legislators, trying to enlist their support in a $40 million contract dispute with the state.
Attorney General Jeff Landry’s lawsuit targeting a reporter for The Times-Picayune and The Advocate who filed a public-records request seeking information about Landry’s office is an “unfortunate example that likely will encourage egregious behavi…
Louisiana legislators, angry at federal executive orders that clip oil and gas drilling and production, grilled Wednesday Edwards’ administration officials, who largely agreed with them.
Over Donald Trump’s presidency, Sen. Bill Cassidy was always a reliable ally, voting with the president 89% of the time and taking a central role in advising the administration on health care policy.
A Baton Rouge judge who reached the state's mandatory judicial retirement age before her coronavirus-delayed election last summer has brought the judiciary into "disrepute" by continuing to serve, a panel of judges, lawyers and laypersons claims.
Louisiana’s two Republican U.S. senators split their vote Tuesday afternoon as the U.S. Senate rejected arguments that the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump was unconstitutional and voted to continue the proceedings on Wednesday.
A bid to create a high occupancy lane on always crowded Interstate 12 in Baton Rouge that was set to open this year may be delayed until 2022, Louisiana's transportation chief said.
Louisiana Legislative Auditor Daryl G. Purpera said Monday he’s moving to a higher calling – as pastor of a Baptist church – and would step down March 2 after a decade as the state’s chief watchdog over how government agencies spend public money.
Ronnie Jones, the former top gambling regulator in Louisiana who was ousted from his post last summer, is taking a new job as an advisor to the British gaming firm Entain, helping the company navigate the U.S. regulatory process as it expands a sp…
The sponsor of a bill that would gradually boost Louisiana's gas tax by $660 million per year said Monday he is confident the effort is feasible in 2021 despite the failure of previous efforts to go anywhere.
State Rep. Ted James headlines an early list of names circulating in the local legal community from which the region's next chief federal prosecutor could be chosen.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Simply creating a task force to study law enforcement training and misconduct issues amid a national discussion about racial bias in policing drew sharp tensions in the Louisiana House over the summer. Months later, lawmake…
How about a statue of “Whipped Pete”?
State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson provided much more specific answers at a recent campaign forum in the 2nd District Congressional race than did state Sen. Troy Carter, the other top contender.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on Friday sued a reporter for The Advocate and The Times-Picayune over a public-records request she filed, asking a judge to issue a declaratory judgment denying the request and seal the proceedings.
Louisiana lawmakers intend a close watch as the state shops for new voting machines, a vendor search that comes in the aftermath of a divisive, partisan national uproar about the mechanics of casting ballots and the equipment used in that process.
A public policy thinktank identified 28 Constitutionally protected special funds that could be restructured to make available about $1 billion more money.
Senate Education Committee Chairman Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, on Friday asked Gov. John Bel Edwards to immediately add teachers to the list of those eligible for the coronavirus vaccine.
Though facing a nearly $1 billion revenue shortfall, a number of state lawmakers are putting together legislation that would restructure how Louisiana taxes people and businesses with an overall goal of lowering rates on income taxes.
Fueled by passions over Donald Trump, both mainstream political parties in Louisiana saw significant improvement in voter registration in the past year, but at the cost of greater racial stratification between the two.
A day after joining several Republican senators in a meeting with President Joe Biden about a coronavirus aid bill, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy Tuesday conceded they might not reach a bipartisan deal, while he urged the White House not to pass a plan w…
The Central School Board on Monday appointed local CPA Phil Graham to replace founding board member Willard “Will” Easley, who recently resigned after 14 years serving on the board of the suburban Baton Rouge school district.
“Cut that crap out,” U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy reportedly told Republican congressmen in a private meeting Wednesday. "No more attacks to one another," he tweeted later in the day.
More than 200 Republican activists and elected officials gathered inside a Baton Rouge church Saturday for a state GOP meeting where Louis Gurvich, chairman of the party, fended off state Rep. Lance Harris’ bid to unseat him.
Zachary mother calls on Legislature to take action following her eviction: 'Hardest time of my life'
Arielle Butler laughed as she watched her 3-year-old daughter wind around the driveway of their Zachary home in a battery-powered toy car while her 4-year-old son kicked a soccer ball in the yard nearby.
A $275 million program aimed at helping small businesses survive the pandemic is complete and provided grants to more than 20,000 businesses for about $12,000 each, state Treasurer John Schroder said Thursday.
The sprawling, 230-member Republican State Central Committee will descend on a Baton Rouge church Saturday to hold its quarterly meeting, during which members will vote for a party chair. The indoors event has prompted concerns about the spread of…
Utility regulator Craig Greene, a Baton Rouge Republican, was chosen Wednesday to be chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for the next year.
The former executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority has been appointed to a post in the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Steve Carter, a three-term state representative who frequently spoke of his love for Baton Rouge, and ran for mayor-president last year with the hope of leading the city, died Tuesday night of complications from the coronavirus. He was 77.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana left the door open to voting to convict former President Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial on charges of inciting an insurrection, saying he will listen to the evidence presented at trial to make hi…
State Rep. Lance Harris, an Alexandria Republican who previously led the House Republican delegation and recently ran an unsuccessful bid for Congress, is running for chair of the Louisiana Republican Party.
Judge Beau Higginbotham, who has sat on the 19th Judicial District Court's criminal bench for six years, is fighting for what he calls his "rightful claim to the civil bench."
NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden has put his team to work reviewing dozens of actions taken by former President Donald Trump, aiming to reverse orders that he says harm the environment or endanger public health.
Ascension Parish government's public works department, which fixes roads and maintains ditches, suffers from shortages in manpower and operable equipment that cut into effectiveness, according to a new report.
Louisiana will keep in place expanded mail-in voting for the upcoming special congressional elections, in line with a court order last fall, after state lawmakers approved the emergency plan this week.
The bright purple dress and suit jacket that Kamala Harris wore at her inauguration as vice president this week was rooted in the women's suffrage movement from a century ago, in a local Baptist church and in designer Christopher John Rogers II's …
The widow of the late U. S. Rep.-elect Luke Letlow on Thursday filed for the north Louisiana congressional seat her husband won handily in December before dying of complications from COVID-19.
Percy Joseph Mills Jr., better known as P.J. to his many friends during 30 years in high level jobs in business and politics in Shreveport, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, died Saturday in New Orleans. He was 87 and had been ill with Parkinson’s and …
VP Kamala Harris' Inauguration Day outfit was designed by Baton Rouge native Christopher John Rogers
Baton Rouge native Christopher John Rogers designed part of Kamala Harris' outfit for Wednesday inauguration.
Two New Orleans Democratic state senators wasted no time Wednesday in filing for the 2nd congressional district seat formerly held by Democrat Cedric Richmond.
Louisiana Speaker of the House Clay Schexnayder is closing the State Capitol Wednesday “in an abundance of caution” because of a possible protest.