Politics & Policy

Louisiana government agencies entered into about $3.3 billion in contracts over seven years without...

Electric reliability has been a hot topic lately—from congressional hearings to regulatory agencies and at the regional transmission organizations that run the electric grid in much of the country.

Since the Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions programs and reversed affirmative action in June,...

Higher prices for steel, labor and debt financing have raised the cost of developing...

The Pennington family is withdrawing its financial support for Pennington Cancer Center at Baton Rouge General after 23 years and has given the hospital permission to remove signage and marketing materials containing the Pennington name. 

Plans are coming together for Gov.-elect Jeff Landry’s inauguration with ab"out seven weeks to go before he is officially sworn into office Jan. 8.

Gov.-elect Jeff Landry spent at least $3.7 million on political consultants tied to former President Donald Trump while Landry was running for Louisiana governor over the past year. 

The transition for Gov.-elect Jeff Landry continued Monday as he and his wife, Sharon, met with the current occupants of the Governor’s Mansion.

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, suggested Monday that the economy appears to be on what he calls the “golden path,” another term for what economists call a “soft landing,” in which the Fed would curb inflation without causing a deep recession.

A pile of government cash from last year’s climate law was supposed to fuel a wave of clean-energy startups. However, many are running out of money before the funding comes through, The Wall Street Journal reports.