Politics & Policy

Undergraduate enrollment at Louisiana universities dropped 1.5% between 2019 and 2020, even though LSU and other colleges across the state last fall reported record-breaking freshman class sizes, according to a new data analysis from The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome has announced her plan for spending the next batch of federal funds headed to Baton Rouge courtesy of the American Rescue Plan.

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor in two reports made public today identified some $54.6 million in spending by the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security that was not supported by sufficient documentation.

LSU will lift its COVID-19 entrance protocols for football games in Tiger Stadium, beginning with the Oct. 16 game against Florida.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is launching an online poll for identifying and prioritizing recreational amenities along the greenway beneath and alongside Interstate 10 through Baton Rouge, extending from Myrtle Street at Expressway Park southeast to E. Polk Street Park.  

Two high-powered Democrats from Baton Rouge hope to block U.S. Sen. John Kennedy from...

The Baton Rouge region, despite what we say, won't solve its flooding problem. Why? Because we don't want to do what it takes to address it.

Whether its nursing homes, the power grid, industry or picking up the garbage the question is the same: Why won't those responsible for regulating these services do their job?

One day after the chairman of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation resigned from the hospital fundraising board amid the escalating feud between OLOL and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, blasting hospital leadership as “morally bankrupt,” prominent businessman and OLOL donor Richard Lipsey is also taking aim at the institution.

A lawsuit involving Republican lawmakers’ efforts to block coronavirus restrictions imposed last year by Gov. John Bel Edwards has been dismissed by a state appeals court.