Politics & Policy

Lawmakers on both sides of Memorial Hall voted this week to appoint (and reappoint)...

Entergy’s shareholder payments have topped $1.5 billion over the past two years; meanwhile customers’ bills in Louisiana have grown exponentially.

Six large subdivisions, including two deferred and three needing only commission approval, will go before the Baton Rouge Planning Commission in March.

House Speaker Clay Schexnayder this morning launched a probe in response to an Associated Press report last month that showed Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards was informed within hours that troopers arresting Ronald Greene engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle,” yet he kept quiet for two years as State Police told a much different story to the victim’s family and in official reports: that Greene died from a crash after a high-speed chase.

The Louisiana Department of Health is looking for more opportunities to partner with state universities to draw down federal research dollars, Secretary Courtney Phillips says. 

A Louisiana Senate committee advanced a map of revised state Supreme Court districts today...

The Federal Reserve plans to raise interest rates in March, usually meaning bank customers will make more on their deposits. But U.S. banks have little incentive to increase the interest they pay on deposits.

While the oil and gas industry isn’t going away, major automakers’ shift toward electric vehicles shows why Louisiana needs to diversify its energy sector, Louisiana Economic Development Secretary Don Pierson says. 

Paul Matthews, the new executive director of the Port of South Louisiana, says the...

Members of Gov. John Bel Edwards' staff were in communication with people involved in...