Nearly 125,000 retirees over the age of 60 will see increases, ranging from 1.5 percent for retired state workers and teachers to as much as 4 percent for retired state troopers ...
The holiday normally takes place on the last Saturday and Sunday in May, exempting hurricane preparedness items, like batteries and lanterns, from state sales taxes ...
The proposal would require at least 65 percent of the state public defender board's financing to flow to local indigent defenders. That could steer money away from appeals of death sentences for poor defendants ...
The Louisiana IceGators will suspend operations for the 2016-17 hockey season because of renovations at the Cajundome, the team's home arena ...
Gov. John Bel Edwards says he'll "reserve final judgment" on the House version of next year's budget until he gets more details. But he already has concerns about the approach ...
A bid to require movie theaters across Louisiana to install metal detectors has been rejected by the House Criminal Justice Committee ...
Louisiana's state senators voted 37-0 for a bill that would exempt minors engaging in sales of less than $500 a year from having to pay an occupational license tax ...
If the TOPS free college tuition program isn't fully funded, Louisiana's senators want every eligible student to at least get partial payment of tuition ...
The proposal wouldn't allow retail stores to sell raw milk ...
Louisiana's unemployment rate rose in March, as more people entered the labor force than could find jobs ...
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 ...
