Politics

New political boundary lines for Louisiana’s Public Service Commission and Board of Elementary and Secondary Education are nearly complete at the Legislature. The Louisiana Senate...

Republicans in the Louisiana Legislature have almost exclusively advanced maps that favor their party throughout the ongoing redistricting session. But one Capital Region lawmaker...

A push by some Senate Democrats to suspend the federal gasoline tax is running into opposition from both Republicans and other Democrats, presenting a...

Republican leaders in the Louisiana Legislature are optimistic their special redistricting session will end before the weekend as GOP-backed maps continue to advance from...

Redistricting is among the most important political tasks the elected members of the Louisiana Legislature will face. So naturally, there’s money attached.  Representatives and senators...

Legislation to increase the Black population in a mostly white Louisiana congressional district was rejected by a state House panel this morning. With efforts to...

As it became clear that Republican leaders planned to pass redistricting maps that would not expand minority seats in Congress or the Louisiana Legislature, Black lawmakers said they had two fallbacks—possible vetoes by Gov. John Bel Edwards or lawsuits.

Louisiana's Republican-dominated Legislature made it clear this week that neither the House nor Senate will advance a new congressional map that adds a second...

In case you missed it, the Louisiana House on Thursday approved a bill shifting boundary lines for the state’s six congressional districts—without creating a second majority Black district sought by civil rights organizations.

Lawmakers on both sides of Memorial Hall voted this week to appoint (and reappoint) four members to the Louisiana Ethics Board, including incumbents Robert...

House Speaker Clay Schexnayder this morning launched a probe in response to an Associated Press report last month that showed Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards was informed within hours that troopers arresting Ronald Greene engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle,” yet he kept quiet for two years as State Police told a much different story to the victim’s family and in official reports: that Greene died from a crash after a high-speed chase.

A Louisiana Senate committee advanced a map of revised state Supreme Court districts today that maintains just one majority-minority district. The bill advanced on...

Members of Gov. John Bel Edwards' staff were in communication with people involved in the investigation into the death of Ronald Greene in May...

A proposed new congressional district map that would create a second mostly Black district was rejected Tuesday by Louisiana's Senate, which instead approved a map that looks very similar to the current configuration.

Week two of Louisiana’s redistricting legislative session kicks off today, and lawmakers have yet to vote on any map proposals on the House or Senate floors. 

Louisiana's congressional incumbents have posted their latest campaign finance reports in preparation for next fall's election even as they wait to see what their...

hat session will likely host several proposed reforms for the State Police, Fields added, from funding and constitutional protections to oversight. 

Workers have the upper hand as employers raise wages and try to fill open jobs. Recent surveys reveal employees care more about flexible schedules than whether or not they go into the office, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The two Louisiana State Police detectives in charge of the Ronald Greene investigation met with Gov. John Bel Edwards' top attorney this week in the state Capitol to discuss the case, USA Today Network reports. 

After weeks of working to build consensus around a new Louisiana Senate district map, Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, finds himself squaring off against...