Politics & Policy

After years of complaints that Baton Rouge’s biking experience is lackluster, two of the area’s largest bike path systems will be connected later this year. 

If Louisiana had grown at the average rate of its regional neighbors since the beginning of 2016, the state would have 239,000 more jobs and 301,000 more residents than it does now, according to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. 

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome and the MovEBR program management team released proposed plans for...

Chauna Banks, who sits on East Baton Rouge Parish’s Metro Council and Planning Commission, says cities within the parish are slowing development in nearby unincorporated areas.

Reduced general fund appropriations in recent years have forced Louisiana state parks to spend improvement funds on operations, creating a $42 million backlog of needed repairs.

Candidates for Louisiana governor filed their campaign finance disclosures for a three-month period starting...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s current strategy to alleviate Baton Rouge’s abysmal traffic is an ongoing multiyear Interstate 10 widening project, which will eventually add a new lane in each direction. 

The three Republican judges who unanimously ruled against the incorporation of St. George are guilty of “judicial overreach,” a GOP state representative says. 

Three days after multiple explosions rocked the Dow Chemical plant in Plaquemine, state officials and the company have remained silent as to the cause and nature of the incident while some neighboring residents report having felt ill over the weekend.  

National confidence in higher education dropped to 36% this year, compared to previous readings...