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A bill that would have protected the practice of IVF in Louisiana failed to make it out of a Senate committee hearing Tuesday.

The former secretary for the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development announced his run on Monday.

The Louisiana legislature has finished its first week of the regular session. Gov. John Bel Edwards laid out his legislative priorities in an address to…

With all the sleet and freezing rain that seized up our brains in the past week, it would be easy to forget that in the midst of the first sneaux day...

State government offices in 56 parishes will be shuttered Tuesday due to the winter storm forecasted to spread snow, sleet and freezing rain across much…

A total of 173 state employees have been laid off in the first two months of the fiscal year that started July 1.Lindsay Ruiz de Chavez, with the state…

The Louisiana attorney general's office says a Jindal administration plan to hire a private company to manage a state employee health insurance plan…

Gov. Bobby Jindal's chief budget aide says he wants to hire a private company to advise him on the best way to collect more than $1 billion owed to state…

Because of Hurricane Isaac, state government offices will be closed throughout Louisiana on Wednesday.Commissioner of Administration Paul Rainwater said…

State government offices across 22 parishes will shut down Tuesday and Wednesday because of Tropical Storm Isaac, expected to grow into a…