Fall elections in Louisiana have been rescheduled due to the serious impacts of Hurricane Ida, which made landfall on the coast on Aug. 29 as a Category 4 storm.
Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin has requested that the Governor reschedule the October 9 election for November 13 and the November 13 election for December 11.
As the United Nations monitors the developments in Afghanistan U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a Louisiana native, says fundamental freedoms of Afghans must be respected.
A Louisiana House committee met Monday, Aug. 16 to discuss COVID-19 vaccines. At the meeting, a man who represents Bossier Parish urged healthcare professionals to build trust with the community.
Thousands have flooded the airport in Kabul in hopes of fleeing now that the Taliban has seized control of the government and Afghanistan's president has fled the country.
The Texas Supreme Court has blocked mask mandates ordered by two of the nation’s largest counties that defied Republican Gov. Greg Abbott as COVID-19 cases surge and hospitals are stretched thin.
Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a new legal filing intended to strike down a judge’s order which would have allowed masks to be required in all Dallas County schools.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) say they are pleased the U.S. Senate passed the the largest federal infrastructure investment in history, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
It was a debate between personal freedom and the ability to protect children Thursday as a House committee voted against two bills on the mask in schools issue.
Little Rock’s schools and an east Arkansas school district where hundreds of staff and students are quarantining because of a COVID-19 outbreak are suing the state over its mask mandate ban.
The announcement was expected and comes as more than 50 Democrats, who left Texas for Washington on July 12, were on the cusp of running out the clock on the current special session and torpedoing the sweeping voting package for a second time since May.
One week after receiving the COVID vaccine, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise sent out a tweet arguing the CDC’s face mask advisory for both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. He said it only discourages people from getting the vaccine in the first place.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says she’ll try, as she runs for governor, to put on next year’s ballot a proposition to end the state’s individual income tax.
Under this law, the punishment for the manufacture or delivery of 4-200 grams of fentanyl is a minimum of ten years in prison or a maximum of life in prison. The minimum sentence increases to 15 years for an amount of 200-400 grams and 20 years for an amount of over 400 grams.
Lawmakers have gavelled into a historic veto override session at the Louisiana State Capitol. Some of them want to overturn two dozen bills rejected by Gov. John Bel Edwards in the spring session.
House Speaker Clay Schexnayder (R-Gonzales) laid out on Monday, July 19, how he and his fellow Republicans feel leading up to this historical veto session.
The session — to open Tuesday and last up to five days — will make history as the first veto session ever held under the Louisiana Constitution enacted in 1974.
Many Republican state lawmakers want to override Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a transgender sports bill. Edwards say that would put New Orleans hosting of the NCAA Final Four in jeopardy. Mayor Latoya Cantrell backs the governor's veto.
Lawmakers have to vote on whether they want to hold a veto override session this month but the fight to victory may not be as easy as some Republicans may hope.
Tonight on KSLA News 12, Kenley Hargett is looking into SB86, which requires each public school in Louisiana to develop and adopt policies for the installation and operation of video cameras in certain classrooms.
By PAUL J. WEBER, ACACIA CORONADO and BRIAN SLODYSKO
Texas Democrats who hurriedly fled to Washington to block sweeping new election laws back home acknowledged Tuesday they can’t stay away forever and urged Congress to act on voting rights, while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatened them with arrest the moment they return.
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers were set to leave Austin before the GOP could pass a voting bill in the current special legislative session ordered by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press.
