The storm remains offshore, and much of Southwest Louisiana including Lafayette is still likely to see heavy rainfall and other effects, including tornadoes, from the storm as it moves up the Louisiana-Texas border then curves to the northeast ...

With Tropical Storm Cindy official — and unpredictable — and much of South Louisiana still skittish after last August’s devastating floods, Lafayette Consolidated Government says it is making sandbags available to residents on an temporary, emergency ...

Higgins faced up to his rhetoric in a meeting with the left, but how can he abandon the tough talk that made him? ...

It took a costly special session, but Louisiana will enter the new fiscal year on July 1 with a budget in place ...

The northern rim of the Gulf of Mexico, including all of South Louisiana, under tropical storm warning ...

Former House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, now a government affairs advisor at Adams & Reese in Baton Rouge, said last week that he thought his successor in the Legislature’s lower chamber is “doing a good job.” ...

The tech firm behind Firefox has officially opened lines to tap into $150,000 in grants ...

Louisiana lawmakers made crafting their latest nearly $29 billion state operating budget a teeth-gnashing, stress-inducing struggle that took two legislative sessions to complete. That doesn’t bode well for what comes next ...

Effort underway to boot the embattled city marshal from office as his felony trial looms ...

A $28 billion-plus Louisiana operating budget won final legislative passage Friday, a week later than expected, after a stalemate in the spending negotiations forced lawmakers into a special session ...