Transportation Secretary Dr. Shawn Wilson, a Democrat, and Stephen Waguespack, a Republican and president of one of the state’s most influential business groups, faced off Tuesday, Sept. 26 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the University of New Orleans.
Louisiana Attorney General and 2023 Gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry has joined several others in filing suit against Governor Bel Edwards push to grant clemency to death row inmates.
Jeff Landry leads the race in the Louisiana gubernatorial election poll, but potential run-off scenarios loom as key issues like the economy and healthcare shape voter preferences.
Members of the National Association of Advancement for Colored People (NAACP) Chapter of Grambling State University, are petitioning to establish a voting station on the campus.
KNOE has put together a list of every unopposed candidate in Northeast Louisiana as well as unopposed candidates in statewide and multi-parish races. Find your parish to see who will be on your ballot as an unopposed candidate.
Arkansas’ top education official on Monday told school districts offering an Advanced Placement African American Studies course to send in their course materials for review.
Louisiana’s Jeff Landry joined 17 other state attorneys general in signing a letter Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Finch sent last month to the Biden administration saying those states need access to information about residents who obtain abortions or gender-affirming care in other states.
The Louisiana Legislature will return for a veto override session Tuesday largely driven by a desire to resurrect a bill that would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender children and teenagers.
Supporters call the bill ‘unapologetically aspirational," as legislators mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs ruling which ended protection for abortion under Roe versus Wade.
The Louisiana Senate passes House Bill 648 with a 29-10 vote. This would ban gender-affirming healthcare for anyone under 18 in the state of Louisiana, even if they have parental consent.
A Louisiana Senate committee killed a proposed ban on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth Wednesday, giving a rare victory to LGBTQ+ activists combating care restrictions throughout the southeast.
A group of voters and a coalition of religious leaders asked a federal court on Tuesday to strike down Arkansas’ 2021 U.S. House map as unconstitutional, saying it dilutes the influence of Black voters in the Little Rock area.
Two former heads of Louisiana’s Board of Private Security Examiners may have both frequented a nightclub where one of them previously worked as an exotic dancer, documents released by Louisiana Inspector General Stephen Street revealed.
The Pleasants have undergone In vitro fertilization multiple times. It's an unpredictable and expensive price to pay for the hope of having a child someday. Kristen is using her pain as her platform and advocating for people across the state to have access to affordable fertility treatments.