Politics & Policy

The U.S. House moved urgently Wednesday to head off the looming nationwide rail strike, passing a bill that would bind companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached in September but rejected by some of the 12 unions involved.

In a significant shake-up of her administration, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome today announced that former Louisiana National Guard leader Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis will replace Darryl Gissel as the city’s chief administrative officer.  

Despite high interest rates and chronic inflation, the U.S. economy grew at a 2.9%...

A state panel has three weeks left to wrap up work on draft legislation...

Louisiana has the lowest number of EV chargers per capita, with just 8.3 chargers per 100,000 residents, according to a new report from software firm CoPilot.   

Plans are underway for a 73-unit townhome and garden home project near the intersection of Millerville Road and Interstate 12.

Louisiana has quietly poured more than $1 billion in higher-than-usual business tax collections into...

For the first time, the federal government is going to start backstopping mortgages of more than $1 million in high-cost housing markets like California and New York.  

As we approach the 2023 statewide election cycle, Republicans are on the verge of capturing a supermajority in both the House and Senate for the first time in modern history.

Most of Louisiana’s nine major metro areas are expected to see more job growth...