Louisiana Government News

TV Online Louisiana Katrina victims still awaiting cottages By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN BATON ROUGE, La.

Louisiana's $29.9 billion fiscal year 2009 budget, which Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law on Monday, could result in cuts to state health programs for low-income, elderly and uninsured state residents, state ...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal vetoed more legislation on Friday. Here is the information from the Governor's office including the veto letters.

The total savings will amount to over $16 million dollars. Click "full story" to see the full list of the items vetoed.

Louisiana's homeland security department should beef up its own staff's knowledge of managing emergency response contracts and debris removal.

New child support laws passed this year by the Louisiana Legislature could mean an increase in the financial commitment paying parents make to their children.

In Parmalee v. O'Neel , the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II, has ruled a state statute prohibiting criminal libel unconstitutional.

Record high gasoline prices are hitting the budgets of state agencies, which use thousands of vehicles for law enforcement, highway work and inspecting agriculture.

"Different strokes for different folks." In my view, that is one of the wonderful things about Bayoubuzz.

Based upon the recent Southern Media and Opinion Research poll announced Monday, Louisiana is a different place than it was only weeks ago.

Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced appointments to the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency.

State and federal officials have scheduled an evacuation exercise next month in Louisiana as they prepare for the 2008 hurricane season.

A Vicksburg hospital has delayed plans to stop non-emergency care for Medicaid patients from Louisiana.

A state law designed to accelerate the cleanup of property polluted by petroleum production was reinstated Tuesday by the Louisiana Supreme Court.

The death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for the rape of a child, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Houston: A top contender for Republican vice-presidential ticket, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is facing an embarrassing "recall petition" over his refusal to veto a legislation that doubled legislators' ...

Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine on Thursday said that a 424-bed $1.2 billion teaching hospital planned to replace Charity Hospital in New Orleans will not turn a profit, as ...

Many professionals world-wide are calling on Louisiana Governor Jindal to veto a bill which would force fluoridation on almost the whole state.

The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for child rape, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and ...

The National Child Support Enforcement Association has named Louisiana the most improved program in the nation, less than three years after the devastation of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.