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Hopes that Louisiana’s government will expand the number of businesses allowed to grow and dispense medical marijuana have hit a snag.
Taxpayers on Monday evening got their first detailed look at 10 possible sites for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, just weeks before the list is trimmed to three.
Still smarting over their inability to spike the governor’s COVID-19 emergency orders, the Republican majority in the Louisiana House on Monday again sought power to cancel similar declarations through legislation that the governor has twice vetoe…
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Cedric Richmond, who left a safe seat representing New Orleans in Congress to become a top adviser to President Joe Biden, is resigning his White House post to become a strategist to the Democratic National Committee.
A state leader's bid to curb speeding on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge cleared its second hurdle Monday when the Senate Finance Committee endorsed it without objection.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, among the longest-tenured lawmen in the state, hasn’t been mentioned publicly as state lawmakers debate a wide-ranging bill that would overhaul the state’s DUI laws and expand the use of so-called interlock devices.
Spencer Hudson was making drinks March 20 behind the bar at the Cat’s Meow in the French Quarter when he crumpled dead to the floor, shot in the chest by a stray bullet that was fired at someone else outside on Bourbon Street.
While the Louisiana House has voted to water down Gov. John Bel Edwards' plan to spend $500 million for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Edwards and other advocates say they are confident the project will get a major injec…
The Senate Committee on Education unanimously advanced a bill Thursday that would stop the reporting of household income for TOPS recipients.
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder is pushing to transfer oversight of several important historic buildings, including the state Capitol, as well as a multi-million dollar fund aimed at attracting major sports events to the state, to the lieutenant go…
The Louisiana House approved pay raises for schoolteachers and college faculty Thursday but not for local police and firefighters, as it passed the bill laying out the $38.6 billion state operating budget for next fiscal year.
Louisiana is getting $5.9 million from the latest round of federal aid to assist low-income families with cooling and heating costs, the White House announced Thursday.
While a majority of Louisiana residents are confident in the elections in the state, trust in local news organizations has plummeted.
The Louisiana House Wednesday night approved legislation to prohibit governmental discrimination based on vaccination status – taking aim at efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic.
It took all of five minutes Wednesday for the House Judiciary Committee to strike Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from Louisiana’s list of legal holidays.
The Louisiana Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would pave the way for the Mississippi River bridge project and three others to get $50 million per year in motor vehicle sales tax revenue that the Legislature authorized last year.
The state Senate advanced a bill 36-0 Wednesday that would provide financial support for new and existing post-secondary education programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Touching his inner musical nerd, House Speaker Pro Tem Tanner Magee took the first step Wednesday in a long cherished personal goal of creating a museum that meshes the civil rights era with New Orleans' position – not Memphis – as the birthplace …
A bill that would double what retired public school teachers could earn if they return to the classroom breezed through the House Retirement Committee on Wednesday.
Gov. John Bel Edwards' plan to alleviate traffic on Interstate 10 by providing a passenger train service between Baton Rouge and Sorrento could be headed off the rails.
Louisiana lawmakers on Tuesday began a push to expand the state’s fast-growing medical marijuana program, with a House committee approving several bills to increase the number of pharmacies that are allowed to sell the drug.
With little debate, the Louisiana Senate on Tuesday evening backed a measure that would prohibit transgender girls from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.
For the fourth time since 2017, legislators refused to abolish the death penalty in Louisiana.
The growth in the number of non-traditional students at Louisiana colleges and universities means a significant portion are going without food periodically, higher education leaders said Tuesday.
After years of effort, the Gulf Fritillary, scientifically known as the agraulis vanillae, is well on its way to becoming Louisiana’s official state butterfly.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy has raised nearly 20 times as much money as his two Democratic challengers combined, according to the latest campaign finance reports.
Arguments over Gov. John Bel Edwards' proposal to spend $500 million for a new bridge across the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge escalated Monday, with a key House committee watering down the proposal and one of Edwards' key lieutenants arguing t…
Louisiana House lawmakers on Monday released their multibillion-dollar spending plans for next year, advancing budget bills that earmark more than a billion dollars in federal pandemic aid, give teachers a pay raise and spend millions on local pet…
Voting along party lines, Republicans in a Louisiana House committee supported landlords over disabled people who want out of their leases because they claim to be no longer able to use or access their apartments.
If one thing rings true about the Louisiana Legislature, it’s full of irony-impaired lawmakers.
As Hurricane Ida hurtled toward south Louisiana, Paulette Tybussek, a resident of Jefferson Parish, weighed her options: “Do you put your life at risk and stay? Or do you evacuate?”
The special election to replace New Orleans state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson will be held in November, Senate President Page Cortez decided this week.
Luke Mixon, a long shot Democrat for the U.S. Senate, is airing an online ad that attacks Sen. John Kennedy for voting to reject presidential electors after a mob stormed Congress in January 2021 to try to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as…
State Sen. Sharon Hewitt said she probably won’t decide for months whether she’ll run for governor next year.
State Rep. Stuart Bishop is tired of the pollution that befouls Capitol Lake and the trash that lines its banks.
After clearing the state Senate without objection, the Louisiana House is scheduled Monday to pick up legislation that would make it easier financially for retired teachers to come back to work to help ease statewide shortages.
Voters in large portions of Livingston Parish will consider whether to provide additional tax revenue for schools and fire protection.
Legislation to designate the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge as a “highway safety corridor” cleared a Louisiana Senate committee Thursday afternoon — a designation that would allow the state to double fines, install more signs and use cameras to track dr…
NEW ORLEANS — The state Legislature could end public health emergency declarations by future governors under legislation approved Wednesday by a House committee in Baton Rouge.
The effort to ask voters, again, to vote on centralizing the collection and distribution of state and local sales taxes hit a major bump Wednesday when four of the state's most powerful associations came out against the measure.
A state Senate committee Tuesday advanced legislation that would give prosecutors the ability to go after online and mail-order distributors of abortion pills.
Victims of sex crimes would have to be notified at least 60 days in advance before their offenders are released from prison under a bill that won approval Wednesday in the Louisiana House.
A Louisiana House committee Wednesday shot down legislation that would require employers to do additional background checks on employees wearing costumes, like Mike the Tiger, and interacting with children.
A fourth insurer has gone belly-up in Hurricane Ida's aftermath.
State officials have launched an investigation into East Baton Rouge's chief public defender after a state representative said dramatic changes she has made to her office could undermine legal representation for low-income people in the parish.
A House committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would remove the permits — and training that goes with it — required for carrying concealed weapons. Then it approved a bill that would forbid state and local authorities to enforce future federa…
The family of musician Jon Batiste went to the State Capitol Tuesday to collect a legislative resolution commending him on winning the Album of the Year and four other awards at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
After failing last year to block Gov. John Bel Edwards from adding the COVID-19 vaccine to Louisiana's school immunization schedule, state lawmakers are taking a new approach to stop the rule from taking effect: a legislative resolution.
Voters would decide whether to abolish the three appointed positions on Louisiana's top school board under a bill that breezed through the House Education Committee on Tuesday.
A small private school in Baton Rouge with an international bent has announced it will close its doors after 22 years in operation, citing a big drop in enrollment during the pandemic from which the school has yet to recover.
Early voting begins at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and runs through April 23 for the April 30 Louisiana municipal general election. There is no early voting on Sunday. Early voting locations close at 6 p.m.