Politics & Policy

Property owners can appeal their own assessments they feel are too high through their local board of review and, if still not satisfied, to the Louisiana Tax Commission. But that’s where the options for remedy end.

The Federal Reserve will make only modest progress in its fight against inflation for the rest of this year, even while keeping its benchmark interest rate at a 16-year high, a group of business economists predict in a survey released this morning.

Louisiana is expected to see slower job growth in the second half of the...

The House Labor Committee advanced a bill Thursday that would protect employees who use medical marijuana from being disqualified from receiving unemployment benefits. 

Master Gardener, a Paul Schrader film shot last year in St. Francisville, gets its nationwide release this weekend.

As much as two-thirds of North America, including all of Louisiana, could face shortages of electricity this summer should there be a spell of severe and protracted heat.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has finally come to terms on the purchase of 25 acres off Perkins Road for $3 million that will serve as the future location of a long-planned elementary school.

—Stephen Waguespack, the former president of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, released...

Oil production in the Gulf of Mexico is cleaner than in other parts of the world, producing up to 46% less greenhouse gas emissions than the global average

Approximately 30% of state funding earmarked for legislators’ 197 personal pet projects in the House-approved budget plan goes to just three of the state’s 64 parishes.