A Jeanerette company has a $15.3 million Navy contract to build rigid-hull inflatable boats for foreign military sales, with options that could bring the total to $47.4 million ...

The House budget committee is starting its hearings on Gov. Bobby Jindal's $24.6 billion spending plan recommended for next year ...

Tom Benson has taken the legal struggle for control of his NFL and NBA teams to federal court while documents obtained by The Associated Press show distrust was fracturing his family months before their bitter public split in January ...

BP has ended its effort to have courts remove the administrator of claims arising from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget proposal for next year would continue a higher education incentive fund that steers money to high-demand job programs ...

Federal prosecutors hoping to win reinstatement of an obstruction of justice conviction against a former BP engineer will argue their case next month at an appeals court in New Orleans ...

In District 49 in Iberia and Vermilion parishes, Republican Blake Miguez defeated one other Republican in Saturday's special election to succeed Simone Champagne after she resigned in December ...

Union workers have been picketing outside two southeast Louisiana oil refineries as part of a national strike by the United Steelworkers union ...

Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has fallen behind chief opponent Jeff Landry in fundraising for this fall's election ...

Gov. Bobby Jindal's budgeting tactics have heavily relied on quick fixes rather than matching state spending to annual revenue ...