Politics

A commercial airline pilot and military veteran announced Tuesday that he'll try to unseat U.S. Sen. John Kennedy in Louisiana's 2022 election.

If you ask Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin what his office is working on, you’ll likely get a different answer depending on the time...

Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin spent the past couple of weeks touring parishes affected by Hurricane Ida in an effort to help them prepare...

State attorneys general have filed more than a dozen joint lawsuits against President Joe Biden’s administration this year, marking a shift in how U.S. presidential decisions are challenged that will probably stick around, according to Governing.

A vote is scheduled today in the U.S. House on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that would send $6 billion to Louisiana for roads and bridges during the first five years of its rollout.

The fund Louisiana uses to pay benefits to unemployed workers falls short of federal standards for solvency, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation.

Lawmakers grilled Louisiana Department of Health officials about the botched nursing home evacuation during Hurricane Ida in which at least seven residents died while...

If the pandemic, Hurricane Ida and the roof of the Superdome catching fire didn’t provide enough drama for you in September, you can always find further political intrigue in the courts, which have hosted major developments in class-action lawsuits this month.   

Partisan budget disagreements on Capitol Hill will likely impact the implementation of new flood insurance rates scheduled to take effect Oct. 1, according to U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge.

Gov. John Bel Edwards said today that he is confident Congress will ultimately pass a supplemental disaster aid package to benefit Louisiana and other states recovering from hurricanes, fires and freezes during the past two years, but acknowledged partisan politics could delay delivery, USA Today Network reports. 

The cost of power restorations and repairs in Louisiana from Hurricane Ida could approach $3 billion, with many customers asked to cover bills without federal aid. 

A bipartisan panel of state legislators slammed AT&T for failing to appear Monday at a Joint Commerce Committee hearing at the Louisiana Capitol amid concerns over emergency communication failures during and after Hurricane Ida, The Center Square reports. 

A request for annexation into the city of Baton Rouge filed by a dozen homeowners in the Willow Ridge subdivision, which sits on the border between the city and the prospective city of St. George, is expected to generate intense debate at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting.

The Legislature’s Joint Governmental Affairs Committee met Friday for the first of  many redistricting sessions to draw new maps that determine which voters to include in their districts in addition to other statewide political boundaries—a project that will impact Louisiana elections for the next decade. 

State lawmakers have scheduled a committee meeting for Monday to dive into a number of hurricane-related issues, like the restoration of utilities and other...

Fair Districts Louisiana is urging Louisiana residents to submit their own proposed political districts as part of an effort to get the redistricting process rolling. 

The Conservative Louisiana political action committee, which supports Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, returned a $25,000 donation from nursing homes owner Bob Dean last...

The Joint Governmental Affairs Committee will meet next Friday to formally kick off the decennial redistricting process, which is a year behind its usual...

Voters will decide on two amendments in October that business interests say will have a major impact on simplifying the Louisiana tax code.

Gov. John Bel Edwards today agreed with Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s request to delay this year’s fall elections by a month due to...