Early voting opens Saturday and ends April 17 for the April 24 municipal general election and a special election for a seat in the U.S. House. Polling places will be closed Sunday.
The chief executives of Georgia’s two largest corporations — Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola — issued statements Wednesday opposing Georgia’s new voting laws.
Two weeks ago, Karen Carter Peterson said she wanted three debates during the congressional runoff, and Troy Carter responded by saying, “Bring it!”
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Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry hasn’t announced whether he’s running for governor in 2023 – he downplays the idea whenever publicly asked.
As the state Legislature prepares to debate whether to change Louisiana’s unique open primary election system and move to closed party primaries, a public disagreement between some of the state’s top Republican officials has emerged over the question.
After being wooed by both of the remaining candidates, Gary Chambers Jr. endorsed Karen Carter Peterson in the April 24 congressional runoff, the Baton Rouge activist who finished third in the primary announced in a video Monday.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome on Monday announced she's throwing support behind Troy Carter in his runoff bid for the 2nd Congressional District seat against Karen Carter Peterson.
Troy Carter led the field but will face Karen Carter Peterson in a runoff after the two Democratic state senators from New Orleans won the top two spots Saturday in a congressional district that stretches from New Orleans to Baton Rouge.
Incumbent Central councilman Tim Lazaroe has turned back a challenge from a former councilman who wanted to return to the council.
The March 20 election is here.
The race for the District 1 seat on Central’s city council pits an experienced former public servant seeking a return to the council against the seat’s current holder, a relative newcomer hoping to change the body’s culture.
Julia Letlow had just begun processing the Dec. 29 death of her husband, Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, from COVID-19 complications when she was confronted with a monumental decision.
Having a Democrat as president means job opportunities in Washington for some Democrats in Louisiana.
Nearly all the candidates vying for Louisiana's two vacant U.S. House seats have failed to file a required federal financial disclosure form detailing their income and debts, a report that can provide details into possible sources of influence or …
In a speech during an April 2000 visit to New Orleans, President Bill Clinton singled out Karen Carter Peterson, then a 30-year-old, newly minted state representative, for a mention.
Troy Carter appeared on the cusp of being elected mayor of New Orleans in 2002. He was young, handsome, and well-known to voters, having spent the previous eight years on the City Council. He raised more money than the other candidates, and he ree…
Louisiana’s top elections official, Kyle Ardoin, has known for years the state needed to replace its fleet of aging voting machines. After a previous effort to do so in 2018 was rejected, he officially began the quest again in January, seeking a v…
Several women community leaders on Saturday endorsed state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson’s candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District.
Claston Bernard, the candidate endorsed by the Louisiana Republican Party, is continuing to make education the center of his campaign to replace Cedric Richmond in the congressional district that centers on New Orleans and the west bank of Jeffers…
All was proceeding according to plan at a campaign event Friday at the Olive Branch Baptist Church in Algiers Friday where 18 Black ministers representing various associations were endorsing state Sen. Troy Carter in the race to replace Cedric Ric…
Today is the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday when African Americans peacefully demonstrating their desire to exercise their right to vote were met at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma by Alabama state troopers swinging batons and sho…
New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno added her name to the growing list of elected officials who have endorsed state Sen. Troy Carter in the race to replace Cedric Richmond in the U.S. House.
Early voting opens Saturday and ends March 13 for the March 20 municipal primary and a pair of special elections for seats in the U.S. House. Polling places will be closed Sunday.
Another elections technology firm is objecting to the terms of Louisiana's voting machine search, accusing the secretary of state of trying to manipulate the bid process to benefit its current contractor and raising echoes of the dispute that dera…
In the wake of Donald Trump’s loss at the polls and his supporters’ storming of the U.S. Capitol two months later, Republicans across the country have grappled with whether to continue embracing the controversial former president.
Though next statewide election is a little less than three years away, both Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser and Attorney General Jeff Landry are raising big money for the November 2023 election, according to recent disclosures filed with the Louisiana Bo…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and Donna Brazile don’t see eye-to-eye on much.
Gov. John Bel Edwards will be at the inauguration of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris on Wednesday.
Small groups of right-wing protesters — some of them carrying rifles — gathered outside heavily fortified statehouses around the country Sunday, including in Baton Rouge, outnumbered by troops and police brought in to prevent a repeat of the viole…
Though law enforcement feared reports of hundreds showing up at each of the 50 state capitols to support President Donald Trump ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, few came on a sunny Sunday in Baton Rouge.
Karen Haymon, of Alexandria, estimated she was about 50 yards from the U.S. Capitol steps chanting "U.S.A." when the first tear gas canisters were set off.
Eddie Rispone, the Republican businessman who lost a bid to unseat Louisiana’s Democratic governor in 2019, is suspending his campaign for chairman of the party, weeks after saying he wanted to take over after seeing the party outworked and outspe…
Julia Letlow announced Thursday morning that she would run for the congressional seat her late husband, Luke Letlow, had won but never occupied as he died of COVID-related complications days before taking his oath of office.
Gov. John Bel Edwards says he’s hopeful a surge of protesters expected at the state Capitol in the next week will stay peaceful, even as law enforcement agencies braced for violent chaos, with the FBI reportedly girding for armed protests in all 5…
The U.S. House impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for instigating last week’s rampage at the U.S. Capitol to try to overturn his election defeat, but Louisiana’s four Republican members voted against the motion.
He looks like a regular guy. He’s unnamed as they usually are in any one of the dozens of commercials for personal injury lawyers that show up daily on Louisiana television, highway billboards, social media and elsewhere.
Baton Rouge Republican Congressman Garret Graves doesn’t think Donald Trump should be removed from office, but said Friday the president should “effectively resign” and keep a low profile for the remaining 12 days in office.
Five of the six members of Louisiana’s Republican congressional delegation sided with President Donald Trump in votes late Wednesday night and early Thursday morning that sought to overturn the election of Joe Biden as president.