The Louisiana Senate advanced a bill Monday that would create an individual income tax credit for homeowners who install a ...

The Louisiana House of Representatives leadership added money to its state budget proposal to avoid a public school teacher pay cut that was expected after a March constitutional failed to pass. The ...

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

Economic development officials in Louisiana want to place less emphasis on the number of new jobs major projects bring to the state and more on what they pay employees. Their strategy calls for a new ...

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 ...