Politics & Policy

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currently does not have the authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority said in a ruling issued today. 

Roughly 76,000 unemployed Louisianans are in limbo after the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s HiRE website...

The Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld an appellate court ruling to reverse the dismissal...

If city-parish sales tax receipts are any indication, higher prices aren’t holding back East Baton Rouge Parish consumers. 

Work is underway to restore the Louisiana Workforce Commission’s HiRE website after Geographic Solutions...

The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and gas drilling lease auctions since President Joe Biden took office after a federal court blocked the administration’s attempt to suspend such sales because of climate change worries.

The board that governs the Capital Area Transit System will consider firing its embattled chief executive and offering a contract to the interim CEO at a special meeting today. 

Gov. John Bel Edwards signed an offshore wind energy bill last week, but it...

A veto of legislation to allow charter schools approved by the state board of...

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the next round of congressional elections in Louisiana to proceed under the Legislature’s approved map, which does not include a second majority-Black district.