Company: 3-D data show sinkhole subsurface stable LAFAYETTE (AP) — New results from a seismic survey of the 13-acre sinkhole in Assumption Parish suggest that the subsurface is stable, said officials of the company that owns the failed cavern thou...
School district grading change delayed BATON ROUGE (AP) — House Education Committee members backed a proposal Wednesday that would require the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to delay using new methods for calculating ...
Medicaid expansion rejected by House committee BATON ROUGE, La. — At attempt to cover more uninsured people in the state’s Medicaid program, as allowed under the federal Affordable Care Act, was rejected Wednesday by a House committee.
After fi...
House panel rejects Medicaid expansion, Senate hearing to come BATON ROUGE — A Senate committee next week will take up the issue of expanding Medicaid to cover more uninsured, an action a House panel turned down Wednesday.
The House Health and Welfare Committe...
Louisiana news briefs School bus driver cited for RR crossing violation
LAFAYETTE — A school bus driver in Lafayette Parish has received a traffic ticket and faces disciplinary action for allegedly driving around the a...
Jindal disputes Medicaid expansion savings BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal disagreed Tuesday with a nonpartisan financial analysis done for lawmakers that estimated the state could save more than $500 million over 10 years by expanding...
Reef fund remains hot legislative issue
By John Maginnis
& Jeremy Alford
LaPolitics.com
BATON ROUGE – A committee hearing that was scheduled Monday for a bill to place the Artificial Reef Development Fund in the state constitution was...
PSC’s energy efficienty move challenged BATON ROUGE (AP) — Supporters of a statewide energy efficiency program on Monday sued the Louisiana Public Service Commission over its handling of a decision to shelve the program.
Three organizati...
Online accounts would be off-limits to employers BATON ROUGE (AP) — Employers and school officials would be banned from demanding access to the personal online accounts of potential employees or students, under a proposal that won approval Monday...
Cigarette tax hike shelved amid opposition BATON ROUGE (AP) — A bid to raise cigarette taxes to the rates charged in neighboring Texas stalled in the House tax committee Monday, as lawmakers continue to show resistance to raising any of Lou...
Louisiana news briefs Mother of dismembered stripper wants justice
NEW ORLEANS — The mother of a woman whose dismembered body washed ashore in Mississippi nearly a year ago wants the killer or killers brought to justi...
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