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Baton Rouge District Judge Richard "Chip" Moore, who has been hospitalized for six weeks with the coronavirus and needed a court ruling on the final day of the qualifying period last month to make a bid for another term, was reelected Wednesday wh…
Baton Rouge City Court runoff candidate Johnell Matthews can remain on Saturday's ballot despite turning 70 before last month's coronavirus-delayed primary election, a state judge ruled Tuesday.
With the Baton Rouge City Court runoff election between lawyers Whitney Higginbotham Greene and Johnell Matthews set for next Saturday, Matthews' age has been thrust to the forefront of the race.
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Businessman and Airport Commissioner Cleve Dunn, Jr. has survived a legal challenge to his candidacy for the District 6 seat on the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council.
Facing a legal challenge, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin said Wednesday he’s about 10 days away from asking for another emergency plan to handle the marquee Nov. 3 elections in light of growing numbers of COVID-19 infections.
An attempt to have Metro Councilwoman Tara Wicker disqualified from this fall's mayoral race in East Baton Rouge Parish has failed.
Lawsuits targeting six candidates for Metro Council positions claim those seeking office are ineligible to run because of tax problems, residency issues, or both.
A Baton Rouge district judge who has been hospitalized since early July with the coronavirus will now face only one challenger in the Nov. 3 election.
The entry of a viable Democrat into the race for U.S. Senate may not make the contest LSU-Alabama competitive, but Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins’ candidacy certainly means the Nov. 3 election is no longer a mere coronation for U.S. Sen. Bill Cas…
In his bid to be elected chief prosecutor in the west bank parishes of the Baton Rouge metro area, Tony Clayton planned to hand out Krispy Kreme donuts at subdivision entrances, knock on doors, attend street parties and visit every social club he …
Though all of Louisiana’s incumbent congressmen seeking another two-year term drew opponents, only Acadiana’s U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins’ race is being called competitive – but that’s not really accurate, experts say.
With an unprecedented number of candidates jumping into the race for East Baton Rouge mayor-president, political experts say the election is now much more competitive — and interesting.
A lawsuit filed Friday seeks to block Metro Council member Tara Wicker from the Baton Rouge mayor's race, claiming that she has not filed her income taxes in recent years.
The Louisiana Supreme Court said Thursday it won’t reconsider its ruling that judges must retire after age 70, leading Baton Rouge District Judge Janice Clark and state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Toni Higginbotham to announce they are dropp…
A longtime Baton Rouge district judge who was told last week that she’s too old to run for another term claims Louisiana's mandatory judicial retirement age of 70 is nothing more than a “voter suppression tool.”
Members of Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards campaign team have joined a newly formed Super PAC to support Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins' bid to unseat incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy in the November elections.
It’s a clichéd scene in political theater: sign-waving throngs, urging their champion to take those final steps and pick up the mantle of leadership.
Early voting begins Saturday and ends Saturday, Aug. 8, for the Aug. 15 election on a number of runoff races and local propositions. Early ballots can be cast from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day except Sunday.
Early voting begins Saturday and ends Saturday, Aug. 8, for the Aug. 15 election on a number of runoff races and local propositions. Early ballots can be cast from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day except Sunday.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome drew seven challengers this week in her bid for a second term — the most a mayoral incumbent in East Baton Rouge Parish has had to face in the last 30 years.
Longtime District Attorney Scott Perrilloux will keep his position in the 21st Judicial District for another six years.
Campaign officials for an East Baton Rouge district judge incapacitated by the novel coronavirus filed paperwork Friday to place him on the Nov. 3 ballot after the state Supreme Court ruled that extraordinary circumstances caused by a worldwide pa…
Another candidate has entered a race for an open seat on the state's 1st Circuit Court of Appeal.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy arrived on the third and final day of qualifying to ensure his name is on the Nov. 3 ballot.
A state appeals court Thursday night refused to hear a request from 19th Judicial District Judge Richard “Chip” Moore’s campaign team to allow the them to act on the hospitalized judge’s behalf and sign and file his re-election qualifying papers.
Only a dozen candidates signed up Thursday at the Secretary of State's Office to run in the November elections, but six of them are running against U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, including an elected Democratic official.
Former utility regulator John Schwegmann is entering the election fray – against his wife’s advice – and running again for the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III qualified to run for another six-year term Wednesday, but he drew no challengers on the first of three days of qualifying for the Nov. 3 election.
The 19th Judicial District Court seat that longtime Judge Janice Clark must relinquish at the end of the year because of her age drew two candidates Wednesday on the first of three days of qualifying for the Nov. 3 election.
Baton Rouge City Court Judge Chris Hester qualified Wednesday to run for a state 1st Circuit Court of Appeal seat that Circuit Judge Toni Higginbotham is barred from seeking re-election to because of her age.
A new poll commissioned by House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and distributed to state House members found wide support for a statewide mask mandate and opposition to an effort led by conservative lawmakers to repeal the state's public health emergenc…
With 19th Judicial District Court Judge Richard "Chip" Moore in critical condition battling the coronavirus, his re-election committee filed a court petition Wednesday asking for permission to sign his qualifying papers.
Metro Councilwoman Tara Wicker has officially qualified for East Baton Rouge Parish's mayoral race this fall.
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins opened three days of candidate qualifying Wednesday with the announcement of his long-hinted challenge to Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy’s reelection.
Candidates for hundreds of public offices have been talking up possible bids for weeks. But if they want to run in the November election, they will have to officially sign up Wednesday through Friday.
With control of the U.S. Senate in play, high-profile Democrats are challenging Republican incumbents running for re-election in state after state this year.
With legal challenges to Louisiana's mandatory retirement age for judges pending in Baton Rouge and New Orleans — and qualifying for this fall's judicial elections across the state just days away — Louisiana's top court is being urged to wade into…
After much speculation, State Rep. C. Denise Marcelle on Tuesday announced her candidacy for East Baton Rouge mayor-president in this fall's municipal elections.
Baker mayor Darnell “DA-1” Waites is headed back for a second term after besting two challengers vying for the position.
Longtime Baton Rouge City Court Judge Yvette Alexander and lawyer Tiffany Foxworth advanced to an Aug. 15 runoff for an open seat on the 19th Judicial District Court.
Lawyers Whitney Higginbotham Greene and Johnell Matthews secured spots Saturday night in an Aug. 15 runoff for a vacant seat on the Baton Rouge City Court.
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's emergency plan for its July presidential primary and August municipal elections, a plan written in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Voters in East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana parishes will see several mayoral races on their ballots for the July 11 election.
The coronavirus has caused an influx of mail-in ballots ahead of the July 11 election, particularly from those 65 and older who are statistically more at risk for serious complications and death if they contract the virus.
The male-dominated 19th Judicial District Court is guaranteed to add a fourth female judge to its ranks this summer. Early voting for the July 11 election began Saturday.
Saturday is election day for a number of Baton Rouge-area races and local propositions.
A former top official in Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's administration has announced his candidacy for the District 3 seat on the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council.
Metro Councilwoman Tara Wicker announced Friday she's running for mayor-president of East Baton Rouge this fall, and is pushing a platform around unifying the city-parish and creating a robust business sector.
Metro Councilwoman Tara Wicker is set to formally announce she's running for mayor-president in this fall's municipal elections.
It became clear last week, during her appearance on a morning radio talk show, that Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome won't likely receive the support of the Baton Rouge police union during her reelection campaign this year.
An emergency plan for Louisiana’s delayed spring elections was approved by the state Legislature after Republican lawmakers rolled back an expansion of mail-in ballots for people concerned about the coronavirus.