U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was reportedly shot in the hip this morning at a GOP congressional baseball practice, Fox News originally reported.
Scalise, a Republican who represents Louisiana's...
On June 8, the Louisiana State Legislature will adjourn its regular session. Convened on April 10, lawmakers used the session to review 949 bills. However, only a fraction of those bills have made it to...
The Senate Tuesday evening passed a pair of measures that provide dating partners, including those in same sex relationships, the same protection in domestic abuse cases as spouses are afforded.
House...
The Senate Finance Committee, buttressed by challenged warnings that any mandated increase would cost jobs, killed, 7-3, a bill that would have raised the state’s minimum wage from the federal minimum...
Tin Roof Brewing Company’s Bayou Bengal lager became the officially licensed beer of LSU in late Aug. 2016. It may go down as the first and last beer ever licensed by the University.
Rep. Cedric...
A bill requiring TOPS recipients who leave the state within a year of attending or graduation from college to repay half of their TOPS grant was deferred on a 4-2 vote in a Senate Education Committee meeting...
Bridging divides has arguably been at the heart of Baton Rouge policy and outreach for much of the past year.
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome stressed the necessity of repairing relationships along...
The countdown to the 2017 regular session is in the single digits, with lawmakers set to convene April 10 for a 59-day fiscal session.
The fiscal session will provide legislators the opportunity to overhaul...
With the Louisiana State Legislature’s 2017 Regular Session just over a week away, legislators have pre-filed several bills relating to higher education – as well as several others on topics...
Proposed legislation from state Rep. Patrick Connick, R-Marrero, aims to close a long-standing loophole in Louisiana’s domestic violence statutes.
The legislation, House Bill 27, would alter the...
Business leaders, legislators and equal pay supporters from around the state will descend on Baton Rouge on Friday for the Louisiana Women’s Policy and Research Commission’s 2017 Equal Pay...
President Donald Trump signed a revised edition of his controversial immigration executive order Monday, temporarily restricting travel from six designated countries – Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan,...
