Brooke Thorington

Louisiana lawmakers approved House Bill 1, a $47 billion budget that keeps most spending at flat levels. But it did approve pay raises for state employees, judges, firefighters and the La. Department of Corrections. HB1 is now headed to the governor's desk for his signature.

This change could affect some, many or even all of the state’s more than 813,000 so-called “no party” voters from choosing major party candidates in future Louisiana primary elections.

Gov. Jeff Landry made a social media post saying that if teachers do not get a pay raise, then no one in state government will get one. It is a reference to HB1201, which would give the governor and other statewide officials raises

The joint announcement by the governor of Louisiana and the state's attorney general followed Wednesday’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which struck down Louisiana’s current congressional map as "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander."

The issue of professors' academic free speech attracted statewide attention in the aftermath of two LSU tenured professors who made derogatory remarks about President Donald Trump and Governor Jeff Landry. One resigned and another lost his job.

The federal grant of $1.1 Billion over 5 years will tackle greater burden of congestive heart failure, diabetes, and cancer rates in rural Louisiana.

Instead of a statewide ban, Senate Bill No. 4 in the 2026 Louisiana Regular Legislative Session would allow customers in each individual water system, with more than 5,000 service connections, to vote if they want their water supply to remain fluoridated.

Current law says custodial parents cannot relocate more than 75 miles away from the other parent without their permission. But how the mileage is calculated is left to a judge’s discretion.

Gov. Jeff Landry cites successes and urges cooperation to approve his $47 billion budget in a mostly 'standstill' budget, as lawmakers consider 1,300 bills.

The resolution would call on Louisiana’s eight-member congressional delegation, “to ensure that all individuals implicated in the Epstein files are fully investigated, prosecuted, and charged through every available legal process.”