Politics & Policy

Congress has spent more than six years avoiding its responsibility to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program, using a series of stopgap bills to extend the life of the program that has issued nearly 5 million policies.

Some might tell you Sen. Glen Womack, a businessman from Catahoula Parish, earned a...

The Labor Department's new independent contractor rule goes into effect March 11, but it's already causing a stir, Inc. reports. 

Louisiana’s school voucher program, which was first signed into law under former Gov. Bobby...

The Environmental Protection Agency can't treat companies differently in Black communities than in white communities, a federal judge ruled this week.

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It’s been more than two years since BREC has completed and submitted an audit report to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office, though BREC officials say they have a plan to get back on track. 

Gov. Jeff Landry has selected Covington’s Susan Bonnett Bourgeois as secretary of Louisiana Economic Development, he announced this morning at the Committee of 100 Breakfast at Washington Mardi Gras in D.C. 

In a meeting that boiled over with testy exchanges and chanting crowds, Louisiana utility regulators adopted a long-awaited energy efficiency program they say will bring accountability to utility companies and stop them from charging customers for power they don’t use. 

The Biden administration is pausing a decision on whether to approve Venture Global LNG’s...