Republicans in Congress are weighing options that could force states to cut services for children and other vulnerable ...

Louisiana economic development officials want a new business incentive program to replace a popular existing one, but it ...

A state health department audit discovered she withheld personal information and underreported income on her applications for ...

Human trafficking is the exploitation of people through force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of sex or labor.

The House Ways and Means Committee advanced legislation that would give parishes the option to increase the homestead ...

A Louisiana House committee shelved a bill Wednesday that would have made it illegal for someone to “intentionally” expose another person to an “incurable” sexually transmitted disease after steep ...

For the second year in a row, legislators pushed back on State Public Defender Rémy Starns’ efforts to gain total authority ...

Louisiana’s wetlands are a hot political topic right now, thanks to Governor Jeff Landry putting the breaks on the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion. Debate over that decision has probably overshadowed ...