Politics & Policy

BCP wanted to pay the city well over $200 million, and assume another $200 million or so of LUS debt, in exchange for keeping most of the revenue the system would generate for at least two decades.

Bernhard Capital Partners, ranking among the 300 largest private equity funds in the world, has its sights set on utility privatization but finding government partners is proving challenging—and controversial.

Credit card debt soared in the U.S. from April through June as Americans borrowed...

Louisiana is set to receive an additional $134 million in federal funding for infrastructure...

Next year’s update of the FuturEBR land use plan should confront how sprawl and lack of connectivity in East Baton Rouge contribute to heavy traffic and flood risk, Center for Planning Excellence CEO Camille Manning-Broome says. 

A healthy portion of the statewide voter turnout yielded by the current election cycle...

Lawmakers this year created, but did not fund, an incentive program meant to lure more property insurance companies to write policies in Louisiana. 

The last two hurricane seasons left swaths of Louisiana without power for weeks at...

An emergency medical service supervisor in Baton Rouge made $87,701 in annual overtime on average from 2019 through 2021, working an average of 2,455 hours in overtime each year.

Louisiana has completed one of its biggest coastal restoration projects yet, and is at...