Politics & Policy

If all goes as planned, a new gravel mining operation will open in the Capital Region next year. 

Librarian Randa Morgan was frustrated and confused when she received unsolicited campaign text messages...

When John Blount got into the construction business in 1987, Livingston Parish was a...

Private companies added the fewest workers in more than two years in September, Reuters reports.  

Have you heard about the Acadiana state Senate race where one of the candidates...

The FDA has laid out a proposal to begin regulating laboratory medical tests, a...

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Lake Charles native Adam Knapp returned to Louisiana in 2002 to work on economic development projects and policies for Republican Gov. Mike Foster, and played a similar role with his Democratic successor, Gov. Kathleen Blanco. 

Real estate interests and insurance companies that administer National Flood Insurance Program policies are heaving a sigh of relief after Congress approved a last-minute deal to temporarily fund the federal government, keeping the NFIP in business—but only until Nov. 17.

Salt water making its way up the drought-stricken Mississippi River is on track to contaminate New Orleans drinking water by the end of the month, and federal, state and local officials are scrambling to deliver alternative freshwater supplies, USA Today Network reports.