A proposal to remove state school board elections from Louisiana’s closed party primaries has advanced in the Louisiana ...

Voters went to the polls in three parishes Saturday to fill three vacancies in the Louisiana Legislature, deciding two runoffs in the New Orleans area and settling a four-person contest for a Baton ...

Landry’s proposal to eliminate the state income tax is struggling to gain traction as Louisiana faces a projected budget shortfall next year.

Banned in more than 70 countries, paraquat is repackaged and distributed in the United States from Syngenta’s manufacturing site in St. Gabriel.

Immediately following a Feb. 20 ruling from the full U.S. 5th Circuit of Appeals, Gov. Jeff Landry instructed schools to ...

Another case of chronic wasting disease, an always-fatal disease that infects deer, has been detected in Louisiana outside of ...

Across Calcasieu Parish, schools remain largely segregated by race, in line with a nationwide trend of re-segregation after ...

Louisiana’s university students presented their research at the State Capitol this week to demonstrate the impact of undergrad research ...

Changes in federal law will require Louisiana to spend $42.3 million more on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the coming fiscal year.

Nungesser has been an outspoken critic of Louisiana's new closed partisan primary system that is in effect for the May 16 ...

Mayor Helena Moreno's legislative agenda is aimed at easing the city’s financial pressures, improving oversight of troubled ...

Holding a closed primary for just the BESE offices alongside the jungle primary next year would cost the state at least $6 ...