The University of New Orleans Faculty Senate is fed up with the university’s budget chief and dealing with frayed internal ...

Upon his return to the House Appropriations Committee after an 18-year hiatus, Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central ...

All eyes were on Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican and longtime doctor who expressed deep concern about Kennedy's ...

After a violent year marked by multiple mass shootings in Alabama, Republican Gov. Kay Ivey and many lawmakers from both parties are backing a proposed ban on so-called Glock switches and other ...

Two Lafayette-area Republicans are vying to fill the vacancy in state Senate District 23 in a special election.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jennifer Herricks, the founder of Louisiana Families for Vaccines, a group that organized a ...

Republican Sen. John Kennedy has landed a key leadership assignment that increases Louisiana's influence in Congress. Kennedy ...

Kendrick Lamar aims to infuse his Los Angeles hip-hop flavor into New Orleans while staying true to his storytelling roots ...

As U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy faces what may be one of the most important votes of his political career in Washington, state Treasurer John Fleming is back home building a challenge and seeking an early ...

Early voting opened Saturday for a special election to fill a vacant seat representing Baton Rouge in the Louisiana Senate, and three hopefuls are campaigning to finish out the term of Cleo Fields ...

Wade in 2022. Louisiana has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. Carpenter and the mother have been charged with causing an abortion “by means of delivering, dispensing ...