BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With no debate, Louisiana state senators Wednesday overwhelmingly agreed to bar transgender athletes from competing on girls’ sports teams in schools.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Senate Republican leader Wednesday scrapped efforts to redesign Louisiana's primary elections in the legislative session, amid sharp disagreements among GOP officials about whether to make changes or leave the state's “jungle primary" system intact...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A study group created by Louisiana lawmakers to discuss ways to address police misconduct issues had the formidable task of getting law enforcement leaders and groups alleging racial bias in policing to agree on substantive change...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to ban transgender athletes in Louisiana from competing on girls' sports teams in schools will be debated by the full Senate after sailing through the chamber's education committee Thursday without opposition...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana lawmakers intend to give K-12 public school teachers a $1,000 pay raise next year, more than double the amount proposed by Gov...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday partially lifted Louisiana's statewide mask mandate enacted to combat the coronavirus outbreak, limiting the face covering requirement to schools, hospitals, clinics and other specific locations...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey's introduction at LSU had an overriding theme that echoed constantly under the domed roof of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With two weeks of the legislative session complete, Louisiana's Republican legislative leaders have speeded ahead with a rewrite of the state's tax system, but without a clear consensus yet emerging on the precise approach to take...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Democrat Troy Carter won Saturday’s special election for Louisiana's vacant U...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The interim president of Louisiana State University, criticized for the school's response to a widespread sexual misconduct scandal, announced Tuesday that he's withdrawing his name from the search for a permanent system leader...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana would strip the requirement that gun owners must have a permit to carry concealed firearms, under a bill that started advancing Monday in the state Senate in contrast to a national debate over whether to tighten gun restrictions...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's health department told the state’s vaccine providers Tuesday to stop administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine immediately, after BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A trial is scheduled to begin Monday on murder charges for a Louisiana white man accused of killing two Black men and shooting into the home of another Black family...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Talk of “tax reform” has returned to the Louisiana Capitol, with the House and Senate’s Republican leaders making it their central push for the two-month legislative session starting Monday...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana museum is showing more than 50 works by one of America’s most important self-taught artists, Clementine Hunter...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana voters across New Orleans, Baton Rouge and several southeastern parishes can begin casting early ballots Saturday in the April 24 runoff election to fill a vacant U...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a $50 million federal racketeering lawsuit, an associate athletic director at Louisiana State University accuses university officials of retaliating against her for reporting racist remarks and inappropriate sexual behavior by former head football coach Les Miles...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Unnecessary suffering and preventable deaths of inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary are the result of “overwhelming deficiencies” in the administration of health care that violate federal law and the U...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Shameful. Heartbreaking. Sickening. Shocking the conscience.
Lawmakers used those words and more to BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a major disaster declaration for Louisiana because of last month's BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Voters thought they’d settled Louisiana’s congressional seats last fall, but only a few months later, they’re being asked to return to the polls for a sort of do-over... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Nine months after Louisiana's public schools received $287 million in federal coronavirus aid to defray pandemic expenses, school systems still have not spent more than half that assistance even as they are slated to get another round of more than $1... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has refused to toss out six criminal complaints filed against a Louisiana pastor charged with violating coronavirus gathering capacity rules put in place during the early days of the pandemic... BATON ROUGE, La. — Luke Letlow, who was to have been Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU is self-imposing a one-year ban on postseason play for this season as part an effort to cooperate with an NCAA probe into rules violations... NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge on Thursday rejected an effort by Republican state House members to force an end to Democratic Gov... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — If Louisiana's decision to reelect a Democratic governor last year made anyone forget about the state's political bent, the latest presidential and congressional elections provided a definitive reminder that Louisiana remains strongly conservative and deeply red, particularly in federal races... BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Bill Cassidy defeated 14 challengers Tuesday to win a second term representing Louisiana in the U...