Politics & Policy

Louisiana and Texas are hoping to wrest oversight of carbon capture wells from federal...

The Louisiana Legislature kicked off its decennial redistricting session today and will have roughly three weeks to draw new election maps. But make no mistake— mapmaking isn’t the only task at hand for lawmakers.

Louisiana’s top GOP lawmaker today weighed taking legislative action against Gov. John Bel Edwards for “gross misconduct and the highest level of deceit” in his response to the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.

A new law directing health insurance companies, agents and brokers to disclose their commissions has been in effect for more than a month, but the rules about how to comply still are not available. 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards faced a chorus of criticism and questions this morning following an Associated Press report showing he knew about the death of Ronald Greene

As the Legislature gets ready to start a special session Tuesday on redistricting, one major focus is whether two of the state’s six congressional districts should be redrawn to give minority residents a better chance to elect two Black U.S. House members instead of one.

IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig and Treasury Department officials warned that the 2022 tax season...

Republican leaders in the Louisiana Legislature, especially in the House, aren't yet on board with Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards' proposal for teacher pay raises.

LSU announced today it has named Kimberly J. Lewis, who most recently served as secretary of revenue in the Louisiana Department of Revenue, as executive vice president and chief administrative officer. Lewis will begin Feb. 1.

A federal court has rejected a plan to lease millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil drilling, saying the Biden administration did not take into account the lease sale’s effect on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, violating federal law, The Associated Press reports.