In a special lawmaking session focused on tax policy, Louisiana lawmakers are also quietly moving legislation that could lead ...

State leaders are mum about whether a nearly $3 billion critical coastal restoration project will move forward.

State lawmakers advanced two major pieces of legislation Thursday to establish a flat tax on income and repeal a tax on large ...

Louisiana’s program to help families save for their children’s college education accidentally made an extra withdrawal this ...

Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill earlier this year that empowers local and state law enforcement officers to arrest people on ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday reassured the nation that democracy won despite his party’s resounding election ...

A live tiger will attend the LSU-Alabama football game Saturday in Baton Rouge, but it won’t be its resident mascot, Mike VII.  State Sen. Bill Wheat, R-Ponchatoula, confirmed to the Illuminator that ...

A state lawmaker on Tuesday asked the attorney general to investigate the Board of Ethics for violations of government ...

Republicans were moving toward unified control of Congress on Wednesday as more House races were called in their favor and ...

Republican U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson’s reelection win in Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District race was all but ...

Almost three decades after redistricting forced him out of the U.S. House of Representatives, Cleo Fields will return to ...

At least five out of 10 states voted to restore or expand abortion rights, according to early election results.