Bobby Jindal News

Despite criticism it would violate the First Amendment, Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday signed into law a bill that makes it a crime for journalists or anyone else to publicly identify concealed handgun permit holders or applicants.

Overgrown weeds in empty fields and signs promising a target date that has come and gone is not the scenario for Juban Crossing thousands of residents in Livingston Parish had hoped for by now.

State Police want to talk to a man who carried a BB gun up to the front door of the State Capitol during a rainstorm Wednesday, according to The Advocate.

Governor Bobby Jindal signed six bills into law when he stopped in Ouachita Parish on Wednesday, part of his 64-parish tour.

Louisiana's governor signed legislation on Wednesday making it a crime to publish the personal information of concealed handgun permit holders following a wave of outrage by gun owners after a New York newspaper listed such data last year.

Assessors and judges in Louisiana will receive multi-year pay raises under two bills signed Wednesday by Gov. Bobby Jindal .

Unhappy residents rally to save Huey Long Hospital. They gathered at Kees Park in Pineville to express opposition to the governor's plan to privatize the public hospital that serves those in need.

Rep. Sam Jones and Sen. Bret Allain brought news of substantial state funding to the Franklin City Council Tuesday.

By John Maginnis & Jeremy Alford LaPolitics Notebook BATON ROUGE - Though 30 months remain in Gov. Bobby Jindal's second term, political observers are looking closely for signs that his power has crested or that his tight grip on state government has loosened.

R.I.P. Michael Hastings, 33. He was killed in a car crash in Los Angeles early this morning .

After employing a rope-a-dope strategy to the mounting criticism of his spending and management practices, St. Tammany Parish Coroner Peter Galvan jabbed back last week with a lawsuit to thwart the state Legislature's move to give parish government control of his agency's finances.

House Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, still has to survive two more regular sessions unscathed and secure re-election to District 91, but he tells Gambit he has his sights set on the big gavel in 2016.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's "bedwetting," "big-boy pants" op-ed in today's Politico had lots of advice and proscriptions for the national GOP , and certainly got Jindal renewed national attention .

Gov. Bobby Jindal was at Shreveport's Rescue Mission today to sign into law two pieces of legislation, ensuring an "unfortunate event" like a recent one at the mission that left 1,600 pounds of game meat destroyed will never happen again.

A video posted Sunday by a Louisiana lawmaker is picking up steam online, and fueling talk of a new 'conservative superstar' in politics.

Last November, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote a list of seven prescriptions for Republicans.

Well, you gotta say, that Bobby Jindal's not afraid to change his tune. Back in January, he thrilled Beltway observers by telling Republicans to stop being the "stupid party."

When I attended Catholic High in the '60s, the senior class each spring loaded onto buses and went off to a three-day retreat at Manresa House, which still operates today in its antebellum setting on River Road in St. James Parish.

Certain Crescent City Connection toll violators would get a break from paying fines under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Perhaps the kindest thing that can be said about the 2013 Regular Session of the Legislature is that it didn't result in the need for a follow-up Special Session.