BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana's runoff election features three statewide races on Saturday's ballot, with most attention focused on the governor's race. But competitions for lieutenant governor and attorney general also await decisions. LOUISIANA GOVERNOR A competitive…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Both men vying to follow Gov. Bobby Jindal into office lambasted the governor's plan for closing the state's $487 million budget deficit, saying Thursday the proposal papers over the gap in a way that punts the…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Louisiana governor's race has taken a surprising turn into foreign policy ahead of Saturday's election, as TV political ads and campaign rhetoric shifted this week to the Paris terrorist attacks and the wisdom of allowing…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal dropped out of the 2016 race for president Tuesday, ending a campaign that failed to gain much support among Republicans sifting through a long list of contenders for the GOP nomination. …
DALLAS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton won the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union on Tuesday, giving her the support of a labor powerhouse that backed President Barack Obama in 2008. The nation's largest health care union represents…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter did little to mask their distaste for each other Monday night in the final statewide TV debate of the governor's race ahead of this weekend's runoff election. …
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Early voting for Saturday's runoff elections for governor and other offices is up 16 percent from primary figures, with the largest increases in urban areas. Elections officials said 257,021 of Louisiana's 2.89 million registered voters…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter and Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards are meeting for their second and final TV debate ahead of Saturday's runoff election for governor. The race is tighter than was expected…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — In a governor's race often centered on character, Louisiana's big business organizations see stark differences between Republican David Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards on policy. The powerful Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, which…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Democrat John Bel Edwards is outraising Republican rival David Vitter in the Louisiana governor's race runoff campaign, as Edwards remains the surprise front-runner in the election. Campaigns for the two candidates announced Thursday how much…
NEW ORLEANS – Mayor Mitch Landrieu was recognized by GOVERNING magazine as a 2015 Public Official of the Year. Mayor Landrieu was among nine state and local government officials honored for looking at challenges in their communities and taking…
MANDEVILLE, LA – St. Tammany Parish Council candidate Jacki Schneider (R-Dist. 7) launched a series of television ads on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, in her runoff campaign. She is believed to be the first Council candidate on the North Shore…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican David Vitter ripped into each other's records and challenged each other's integrity Tuesday in the first televised debate of the runoff campaign, less than two weeks ahead of the Nov.…
GRETNA, LA (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff said Tuesday that he will give the FBI video and other evidence gathered in an investigation of private investigators working for David Vitter's campaign for governor. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand said…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican David Vitter is seeking to gain ground in the Louisiana governor's race against Democrat John Bel Edwards in the first televised debate of the runoff campaign. The hour-long debate, to air statewide Tuesday at…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will ask the Supreme Court to save the president's plan to shield as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, after lower courts blocked it. A federal appeals…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter sought to draw policy contrasts Monday with his Democratic opponent in the Louisiana governor's race, state Rep. John Bel Edwards, as the two men faced off for the first time in…
KENNER, LA (AP) — Kenner officials are trying to increase the annual pay for the mayor and police chief by more than 50 percent. City Councilman Keith Conley has proposed the pay increase ordinance, saying salaries for those posts…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — After months of attacks about his prostitution scandal, Republican candidate for governor David Vitter is addressing the issue in a new television ad — though without using the word prostitution. The 30-second spot, released Monday,…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican candidate for governor David Vitter's aggressive style of rough-and-tumble politics has served him well in Louisiana and helped build the GOP into the dominant party in state politics. It's also become a stumbling block…
TORONTO (AP) — Following the Obama administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, the oil industry faces the tricky task of making sure the crude oil targeted for the pipeline still gets where it needs to go. The pipeline,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama killed a Canadian energy giant's application to build the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring the proposed project wouldn't serve U.S. national interests and would have undercut America's global leadership on climate change. The…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Republican Jay Dardenne, who ran unsuccessfully for governor, rebuffed GOP contender David Vitter in the runoff election Thursday and instead backed Democratic candidate John Bel Edwards. Vitter has been trying to consolidate Republican support in…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — As he looks for a message to gain ground with voters, Republican candidate for governor David Vitter has returned to a strategy that served him well in past elections: criticizing other politicians. He's described Baton…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — In his campaign for governor, Republican David Vitter is raising the specter of crime committed by released prisoners, putting a partisan spin on an effort that has bipartisan support to overhaul criminal sentencing laws. Vitter,…
Is there room for politics in the workplace? Fisher & Phillips’ Edward Harold explains the rules in this Biz New Orleans Daily Biz Minute.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A controversial proposal to allow heavier trucks on interstate highways in an effort to save shippers time and money was rejected by the House on Tuesday, one of dozens of amendments expected to be offered to a…
BATON ROUGE (AP) — Only 14 Louisiana House seats remain to be decided in the Nov. 21 runoff election, after another seat was settled when a candidate dropped out of the race. Chad Brown, a Democrat from Plaquemine, won…
MONROE, LA (AP) — There will be at least one debate before Louisiana's runoff for governor. News outlets report that Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter and Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards have agreed to a Nov. 16 debate…
