“Voters want to be assured that the public officials making their laws are also committed to following the law. It’s common sense legislation and needs to be shored up as soon as possible.” ...

“We’re here to get comments. We can’t say if it can change,” Stantec associate Gary Heitman told Bruce Conque, whom Heitman probably didn’t realize was a newly elected Lafayette City-Parish councilman ...

After a rocky first three months in the quest to design the I-49 Connector, messaging from the Connector team strikes a different tone ...

Will DOTD’s five months of added outreach ‘refinement’ get through to Connector skeptics? ...

Tomorrow’s Community Vision and Values Workshop begins five months of added community outreach programming by the Lafayette Connector Partners ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards' chief budget adviser, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne, asked for budget cut proposals in a letter to the state's higher education leaders this week ...

The investigation Pope claims exempts him from turning over public records has clearly not progressed in any substantive way and is based purely on bigoted assumptions ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards is the first Democratic governor in recent history to have to work with a Republican-majority Legislature ...

Last year the state Legislature approved legislation permitting the department to move forward with the process that could eventually lead to paid sponsorships ...

Four deal with appropriating money for judgments delivered against the state while the others address firearm issues, criminal expungements and the open burning of certain waste ...