Politics & Policy

hat session will likely host several proposed reforms for the State Police, Fields added, from funding and constitutional protections to oversight. 

Louisiana’s largest power company is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency for $450 million to make its electric grid more resilient.

Analysts are using terms like “hot mess” to describe their expectations for the federal...

The two Louisiana State Police detectives in charge of the Ronald Greene investigation met with Gov. John Bel Edwards' top attorney this week in the state Capitol to discuss the case, USA Today Network reports. 

Louisiana consumers pay the highest average combined state and local sales taxes in the nation, according to the latest report by Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation. 

After weeks of working to build consensus around a new Louisiana Senate district map,...

How did Baton Rouge and LSU end up becoming the poster child for something that’s happening in communities across the country?

The Louisiana Legislature opened its special session on political redistricting Tuesday with 22 proposals for reworking boundaries for the state’s seats in Congress, the state Senate, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Public Service Commission and on the state Supreme Court. More proposals are in the works for the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has scheduled a 4:30 p.m. news conference today to address the growing chorus of questions

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently ruled that a man who drove someone else’s car as a favor to get a tire fixed wasn’t covered when he got in an accident.