Politics & Policy

An oil refinery in Belle Chasse that was flooded during Hurricane Ida is being shut down and turned into a storage terminal, prompting local leaders to assess the potential economic impacts that could come with losing one of the area’s biggest employers.

S&W Wholesale Foods is developing a $12 million multi-temperature wholesale food distribution center near Hammond, according to an announcement from Gov. John Bel Edwards. 

The Metro Council today will take up Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s plan for spending nearly $12.6 million in federal grant money. 

LABI: Tickets for the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry’s Business and Boots block...

A simmering within the Republican Party of Louisiana leadership boiled over today when party Secretary Mike Bayham accused Chairman Louis Gurvich of trying to manipulate the next intraparty election to remain in power.

On Oct. 1, the federal government made major changes to the National Flood Insurance...

As the potential candidates for governor shore up their fundraising and messaging games, a...

Congress passed the $1 trillion infrastructure deal late Friday and President Biden signed it Saturday, providing Louisiana with billions in infrastructure funding. So what will Baton Rouge gain?

Commercial users and those from outside of East Baton Rouge Parish would pay more to use the parish’s North Landfill under a proposal on Wednesday’s Metro Council agenda. 

Its private employer vaccine mandate on hold, the Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace rule—including Louisiana Secretary of State Jeff Landry’s—consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week.