John Kennedy still has to win his U.S. Senate bid before the post of state treasurer opens up, but that hasn’t stopped a large slate of legislators from making very quiet moves ...

Super PACs, which are a specific class of political action committees that can raise unlimited dollars, are starting to show up on television screens in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race ...

In a dramatic shift away from the Edwards administration’s priorities, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a state budget May 9 that gives the attorney general autonomous spending control and eliminates the office of inspector general, among ...

Two bills that have been moved to the House floor in Louisiana could put pressure on law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal officials when policing undocumented immigrants ...

“We’re going to live in the real world,” Gov. John Bel Edwards told lawmakers ...

Any legislation to change them may have to wait until the 2017 session or a possible second special session this year ...

There are now 15 politicos — some running, some thinking about it and others simply being encouraged — who are in the hunt to replace U.S. Sen. David Vitter next year ...

It was the super PAC that received the least amount of attention this cycle that spent the most on Election Day in November in the governor’s race ...

Price of Oil Getting Political in LouisianaWhile oil prices, and predictions about where they’re going, don’t paint a pretty picture for the state of Louisiana, we’re unlikely to see a true and complete portrait of their effect on the current ...

Candidate for city-parish prez (along with fellow state Rep. Ledricka Thierry and state Sen. Fred Mills) earns an "F" from biz lobby; Elbert Guillory, Nancy Landry and Stuart Bishop awarded "A." ...