State representatives will continue to get a maximum $1,500-a-month voucher expense allowance, a House committee decided Tuesday. Read More and Discuss

State representatives will continue to get a maximum $1,500-a-month voucher expense allowance, a House committee decided Tuesday. Read More and Discuss

The Louisiana Senate decided Monday that the state Board of Ethics should be stripped of enforcement powers. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE - Democrats maintained their hold on the state House of Representatives, with Saturday’s runoff elections giving them the slimmest of majorities: 53 seats in the 105-member chamber. Read More and Discuss

WASHINGTON — Outgoing Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Tuesday set the dates for the special election to fill the vacancy of U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-Kenner, who was elected governor Oct 20. Read More and Discuss

LAFAYETTE — A Carencro city councilman will face a former legislator in the Nov. 17 runoff for state House District 39 — a race that has attracted the attention of state political parties hoping for an edge in the Legislature. Read More and Discuss

As the campaign for the 103rd House of Representatives seat enters the final stretch, the candidates expect the race to take on greater significance with the state’s two biggest political parties. Read More and Discuss

After a close primary that saw the vote almost evenly split among three candidates, Westwego Mayor Robert Billiot and lawyer Danyelle Taylor will meet in next month’s runoff for the 83rd House District seat. Read More and Discuss

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republicans haven’t controlled the state House since the 19th century, but they’ve got a shot to win it back this year. Several factors are working in their favor, in spite of ongoing national political troubles that include the sex scandal faced by Louisiana’s own U.S. Sen. David Vitter. Vitter himself, and his work behind the… Read More and Discuss