Louisiana will wait until mid-January to update its income projections to account for the latest effects of the coronavirus outbreak, delaying a traditional pre-holiday forecasting meeting amid continued economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry issued a statement supporting the State of Texas’ request that the U.S. Supreme Court overturn the electoral votes in four states that went to President-Elect Joseph R. Biden.
Legislators are accepting a reimbursement rule change that puts money in the pockets of the politically powerful nursing home industry and anger in the hearts of advocates for the elderly.
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Sharon Weston Broome widened her margin of victory in Saturday's runoff by 10 percentage points compared to 2016 when she also faced off against a Republican to secure her first term as mayor-president of East Baton Rouge Parish.
International business magnate Elon Musk was one of the big winners in the federal auction to provide high speed broadband in rural Louisiana.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's top elections official on Monday recertified the state's election results after a recount requested by President Donald Trump confirmed once again that Democrat Joe Biden won the state, his office said.
Voters on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would allow out-of-state residents to serve on the LSU Board of Supervisors and three other higher education boards.
Luke Letlow, who served as the top aide to outgoing U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, easily won the election Saturday to replace Abraham to represent the sprawling 5th Congressional District.
Eric Skrmetta won his third and final six-year term on the utility-regulating Public Service Commission on Saturday night.
Voters in East Baton Rouge Parish selected two judges Saturday, one for the appellate court and another for the state district court.
Republicans maintained their 7-5 edge on the East Baton Rouge Metro Council on Saturday, retaining three seats after Democrats forced runoffs in an attempt to shift the parish's governing body to the left.
Sharon Weston Broome won another four years as East Baton Rouge Parish's mayor-president Saturday, defeating former State Rep. Steve Carter in a runoff election.
Back in mid-October, U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy was effusive about President Donald Trump’s fast-tracking of a COVID-19 vaccine that now will become available by the end of next week. “There will be the highest praise,” Cassidy said Oct. 11.
Once the polls close at 8 p.m., election results for the Baton Rouge area and Louisiana will gradually update. While we wait, here's live commentary from City Hall reporter Blake Paterson.
Louisiana voters will head to the polls once again this weekend to vote on a statewide constitutional amendment, a new East Baton Rouge mayor-president, council members and more.
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council is on track to see its largest turnover in more than a decade, and depending on the results in Saturday's runoff, could see a significant shift in the balance of power between Republicans and Democrats.
RUSTON — Little on the surface distinguishes the two candidates vying for the last undecided race in the U.S. House of Representatives – the runoff is Saturday – in a district that stretches from Bastrop in northeast Louisiana through Bunkie, sout…
Public safety and police pay were the topics that reverberated the loudest during the final debate Thursday night between Democratic incumbent Sharon Weston Broome and former state representative Steve Carter.
The candidates for East Baton Rouge mayor-president will face off tonight in their final debate before Saturday's runoff election.
Louisiana Treasurer John Schroder tested positive for COVID-19 before Thanksgiving and experienced breathing difficulties this week that required him to be admitted to the hospital, making the Republican one of more than 1,300 Louisianans hospital…
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards secured his re-election last year after a heated battle with Republican Eddie Rispone, who was backed by President Donald Trump. But Edwards is not done politicking yet.
After paying some the highest electricity bills in the nation 13 years ago, Louisiana consumers now pay the lowest rates, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
The fall special session held by Louisiana lawmakers to debate COVID-19 rules and hurricane recovery issues carried a taxpayer-financed price tag of more than $1.1 million, according to spending information provided by the House and Senate.
Amid Louisiana's third surge of the coronavirus outbreak, craft brewers and bar owners Wednesday told lawmakers that Gov. John Bel Edwards' COVID-19 restrictions are damaging their operations and threaten to bankrupt their businesses.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome said Wednesday the voter-approved MovEBR program will break ground on 21 jobs in 2021, including seven road construction projects aimed at relieving congestion.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Tuesday that COVID-19 vaccines are headed to Louisiana and elsewhere.
The advertising war between East Baton Rouge mayoral candidates has heated up in recent days, with the incumbent criticizing her rival for a plan to reallocate parks and library funding and the challenger saying his opponent's four years in office…
A number of local items are on the December 5 ballot in the greater Baton Rouge area.
Newly-elected 19th Judicial District Court Judges Christopher Dassau and Will Jorden won't take the bench until early January, but they haven't been sitting around basking in the glow of their Nov. 3 wins.
As record-breaking as the Nov. 3 election was, Saturday’s runoff is on track for an anemic turnout, if early voting results are any indication.
Voters on Saturday will decide a constitutional amendment that would allow out-of-state residents to serve on the LSU Board of Supervisors and three other higher education panels.
A debate between Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Steve Carter is slated for Monday at 1:30 p.m. as they prepare for a Dec. 5 runoff in the race for East Baton Rouge Parish mayor-president.
With less than a month to go before their deadline, the recall effort seeking to force Connie Bernard off the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is on indefinite hold thanks to difficulties posed by the novel coronavirus, say organizers.
Gov. John Bel Edwards planned to serve mustard greens grown in his garden but described this year’s Thanksgiving as far different than last year’s.
In comparison to other states, the cost of living in Louisiana is far better – largely because of lower taxes, lower than usual costs for essential goods and, ahem, significantly cheaper average auto insurance rates than the rest of the country, a…
Louisiana's 5th Congressional District runoff is a Republican-vs-Republican election, where the candidates for the seat being vacated by GOP incumbent Ralph Abraham have few policy distinctions, so they've moved to attacks on experience and background.
Louisiana cast more votes for the anti-abortion Constitutional Amendment 1 earlier this month than were cast for any issue or for any candidate in the history of the state, the official results show.
Baton Rouge lawyer Eboni Johnson-Rose came tantalizingly close on Nov. 3 to an outright win in the three-candidate race for a seat on the 19th Judicial District Court, where her father and uncle already serve.
Charlene Menard, the registrar of voters in Lafayette Parish, got an email during the presidential election from a woman who wanted to know if her grandmother's vote had been counted.
Charlene Menard, the registrar of voters in Lafayette Parish, got an email during the presidential election from a woman who wanted to know if her grandmother's vote had been counted.
While a new push to boost Louisiana's gas tax is underway, this one faces the same massive hurdles that have killed earlier efforts.
Longtime Baton Rouge civil attorney Melanie Newkome Jones believes she's the most qualified candidate left in the race for a seat on the state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal. Her opponent, former assistant district attorney and current Baton Rouge Ci…
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Texas and Louisiana can cut off funding to Planned Parenthood clinics, reversing earlier decisions stemming from legal battles over abortion.
Leaders of several Louisiana public school systems called on state officials Monday to relax coronavirus quarantine rules that have sent thousands of students home from school because they have been in close proximity to someone who tested positiv…
State officials said Monday they have picked a contractor to handle the first phase of the widening of often-congested Interstate 10 between La. Hwy. 415 in West Baton Rouge Parish and the I0/12 split.
President-Elect Joe Biden on Monday tapped Baker native and LSU alumna Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Truth is over the years almost the only contributors financing the political campaigns of the commissioners overseeing the state’s trucking and utility industries come from the very companies directly regulated by the Louisiana Public Service Comm…
When state legislators redrew congressional districts nearly a decade ago, they designed the 2nd congressional district to elect a Black Democrat from New Orleans.
Congressional Democrats will be gaining a strong voice in the White House when U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond takes a job as a senior adviser to President Joe Biden after Jan. 20.
The two Republicans vying to replace U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham in the 5th U.S. Congressional District have launched attack ads against each other in advance of the Dec. 5 runoff.
Former governor Edwin Edwards was released from the hospital Friday afternoon after a weeklong bout with double pneumonia.