Politics & Policy

Sports betting in Louisiana may not begin until mid football season, says Ronnie Johns, chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, but Baton Rouge is already preparing.

Efforts by a task force created Gov. John Bel Edwards to recruit and launch...

U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, is trying to keep the pressure on state officials to get money from the $1.2 billion Louisiana Watershed Initiative flowing to flood mitigation projects in the Capital Region.

Legislators are set to start redrawing the state’s six congressional districts in February, and...

Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Dr. Craig Greene says the LPSC is working to prevent a recurrence of the widespread power outages and strife that came with the harsh winter storms that blew through the state in February.  

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct a new environmental impact review of Formosa Plastics Group’s planned $9.4 billion complex in St. James Parish. 

Louisiana's top school board cut short its meeting today to debate whether Gov. John...

As the state moves forward with its $1.1 billion plan to widen Interstate 10 through the heart of Baton Rouge, a group of residents is increasingly concerned about what the yearslong construction project will mean for those in the shadow of the highway.

Kansas City Southern decided Tuesday to delay this week’s planned shareholder vote on Canadian National’s $33.6 billion offer to buy the railroad because regulators haven’t yet ruled on a key part of the acquisition plan, which involves potential passenger rail between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. 

Louisiana’s top school board is to decide Wednesday whether it will challenge or follow Gov. John Bel Edwards’ mask mandate for public schools, wading into a thorny issue that has divided parents and provoked angry protests in some school districts.