Politics & Policy

The Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday will take up an estimated $8.8 million in payroll tax benefits and sales tax rebates for SNF Holding Company’s expansion of its polymer production plant near Plaquemine. 

The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday scrapped plans to close one of its three...

Gov. John Bel Edwards is touting hundreds of millions of dollars in planned business...

Louisiana lawmakers reflected on their actions over the past two weeks as the Legislature’s redistricting session is expected to end today with its Republican majority having defeated attempts at shifting political boundaries to create greater minority representation in Congress, the Legislature, on the state school board and on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

Lawmakers are expected to adjourn their special session on redistricting today, which will allow...

For decades, politicians have talked about the U.S. achieving energy independence, a seemingly elusive goal of producing enough fuels to avoid relying on the rest of the world to fill up gas tanks and keep electricity flowing.

New political boundary lines for Louisiana’s Public Service Commission and Board of Elementary and...

Republicans in the Louisiana Legislature have almost exclusively advanced maps that favor their party...

Roughly two years after lawmakers approved their first tranche of rescue funds, the U.S....

A push by some Senate Democrats to suspend the federal gasoline tax is running...