Louisiana News

State Rep. Patricia Smith, D-Baton Rouge, talks about her support of a Medicaid expansion bill at a rally on Wednesday in Baton Rouge.

Senators will consider whether to prohibit private businesses in Louisiana from paying unequal wages to employees of different genders for the same job.

According to the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, 54-year-old Bradley Wax was booked Wednesday with 38 counts of possessing pornography involving juveniles.

PAYDAY LENDING LOANS.. THAT'S THE HOT TOPIC AT THE STATE LEGISLATURE TODAY.. WDSU REPORTER ANDY CUNNINGHAM IS IN BATON ROUGE..

Louisiana welfare recipients would be prohibited in state law from spending the federal assistance at lingerie shops, tattoo parlors, nail salons and jewelry stores, under a bill that received the support Wednesday of the House Health and Welfare Committee.

In our view, it is critical that Louisiana's education system be strong enough to produce a workforce that is locally capable and globally competitive.

Hope for McAllister? The news is not all bad for Republican 5th District U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister, whose recent marital misdeed of kissing a staffer in his Monroe office is getting mixed reactions from his constituents.

Laura Gerdes Colligan, a Louisiana Attorney General's Office spokeswoman, says Richard Mudd was booked Tuesday into the Livingston Parish Detention Center on 50 counts of possessing and 50 counts of distributing pornography involving juveniles.

Steadily and without much legislative resistance, nails are being driven into the coffin of the coastal damages lawsuit against major oil companies brought by what is supposed to be an independent regional flood protection authority.

BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana won't lessen its penalties for marijuana possession, keeping laws on the books that allow people to be jailed up to 20 years for repeat offenses of having the drug in hand.

Vicki Cormier, of Lafayette, sought treatment for a cold. Now, Cormier said, she has a $1,400 bill that she can't pay.

The Hancock Medical Board of Trustees named Tom Ramsey the chief financial officer at Hancock Medical.

Advocate Photo by WILL SENTELL -- State Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, sponsored two bills aimed at Washington, a town about 70 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, that he calls, the worst speed trap in the state of Louisiana.

Louisiana lawmakers are currently advancing a measure that would require women to receive biased information about the mental health risks of abortion before being allowed to continue with the procedure.

Louisiana is the third-worst state in America when it comes to giving taxpayers a return on their investment, according to rankings by WalletHub.com, besting only Mississippi and Arkansas.

The Louisiana House of Representatives was scheduled to take up a bill to declare the Holy Bible that official state book on Monday evening.

Louisiana's best public high school is Thomas Jefferson High in Gretna. So says U.S. News and World Report in its latest annual report .

Many Louisiana residents face financial shortfalls every day - a child needs to see a doctor or a bill comes due before payday.

A group of U.S. pension funds, including those for public employees in Louisiana , Maryland and Texas, filed suits in federal court in Texas on Friday that accuse BP of making public statements about the Deepwater Horizon accident and oil spill that resulted in the defrauding of investors, according stories filed by the Reuters news service and the ... (more)

A redfish that begins its life in the marshes around Terrebonne Parish's Lake Boudreaux doesn't have a whole lot of options for leaving.