After a newspaper reported that state police shelled out thousands of dollars in overtime and expenses for several troopers who drove to a conference in California with a state SUV, diverting to a Las Vegas casino resort and the Grand Canyon on the way ...
Judge Tim Kelley says keeping those thousands of people from voting is unfair. But he says Louisiana's constitution and state law required him to continue denying the voting rights ...
Stephanie A. Finley, based in Lafayette, joined two other Obama appointees in announcing her departure ...
Louisiana's majority-Republican congressional delegation hasn't exactly embraced the GOP proposal to replace President Barack Obama's health care law, with most members instead offering a cautious, noncommittal response ...
It was not immediately known whether the flood authority would continue to pursue the federal suit by asking for a 5th Circuit rehearing or going to the Supreme Court ...
Besides the get-together with Trump, Edwards will meet with FEMA's acting administrator, Robert Fenton, to discuss flood recovery and recent tornadoes that damaged Orleans and Livingston parishes ...
The TOPS program would only pay for about 70 percent of students' tuition, just like this year ...
Colleges, K-12 public schools and prisons will be protected. Cuts will fall heaviest on the state health department ...
Republican House leaders acknowledged they don't necessarily yet have the support to pass it ...
Edwards wanted to use nearly $120 million from the state's "rainy day" fund to help fill the gap, other reserves and $60 million in cuts ...