DOTD Secretary Shawn Wilson says new road building has been virtually shut out of his department's budget due to the demands of repairing and maintaining the state's existing 16,000 miles of roads and bridges ...
The Louisiana House voted to approve HB1 based on the recommendation of its leadership and the House Appropriations Committee, which did not allow departments and agencies to testify about the impact budget cuts would have on services ...
Orleans Parish Civil District Court Judge Piper Griffin did an about-face at Wednesday’s hearing ...
Louisiana has had a fraught relationship with the death penalty. An analysis of death penalty cases from 1976 to 2015 found one inmate has been exonerated for every three executions ...
A bi-partisan coalition of Louisiana advocates and NGOs will seek to advance bills aimed at ending the state's claim as the incarceration capital of America. Proponents argue that growth in the state's prison population has not made Louisiana safer ...
Members of the House and Senate will head home this afternoon with little progress having been made on budget challenges facing the state ...
The bill to reform the involuntary commitment process would allow the Louisiana Department of Health to intervene in the hearing process ...
Two bills by Sen. Fred Mills won approval by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee on Wednesday and now await action by the full Senate ...
For 25 minutes after a brief statement by Candyce Perret about why she is seeking the seat, Ross peppered the candidate with questions about "her legal troubles." ...
A budget that counts on private investment could count out completing the Connector any time soon ...
Drago's set to take over the location in August ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...
Six candidates vie for permanent job; no timeline released for selection process ...
