For the second year in a row, legislators pushed back on State Public Defender Rémy Starns’ efforts to gain total authority over Louisiana’s sprawling indigent defense system. His proposal would also ...

A Louisiana legislative committee has dramatically rewritten an anti-DEI policy proposal for state agencies that would now ...

Parents of children with disabilities fear proposed Medicaid cuts and those already underway will have a disastrous impact.

The House Ways and Means Committee advanced legislation that would give parishes the option to increase the homestead exemption.

Louisiana legislators are advancing legislation to move the University of New Orleans, which has struggled with enrollment and finances, back into the LSU System. Senate Bill 202 by Sen. Jimmy Harris, ...

Eight states have passed laws since 2022, when Roe v. Wade was overturned, to protect doctors who mail abortion pills out of ...

Louisiana lawmakers are asking Congress to restore federal funding that allows schools and food banks to purchase locally ...

A bill to prevent the takeover of private property for carbon capture and sequestration pipelines in Louisiana was resurrected Wednesday after a tie vote in committee last week. The bill now gets a ...

The Louisiana Legislature is advancing legislation that would allow colleges to contact the parents of students experiencing ...

On many nights, John Allaire can turn off the lights in his house and keep reading a book by the glow of 80-foot-high flares blasting from a gas export terminal a mile away. The prospect of a second ...