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College students clash with administrators over steeply rising tuition. Public employees shut down statehouses amid cuts to pay and retirement benefits. Teachers and social welfare advocates protest budget cuts. Lawmakers struggle to cope with sharp declines in tax revenue.
A federal judge says a Louisiana law that bans certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites is "constitutionally problematic."
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Saturday easily coasted to a second term, winning in a landslide election after failing to attract any well-known or deep-pocketed opposition.
While budget deficits threaten to cripple government services across the country, a handful of states with billions of dollars socked away in "rainy day" funds for troubled financial times are discovering they can't use that money to offset their cuts.
A person familiar with the decision says former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer plans to announce that he is creating an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
About 230 current and former employees at a Louisiana-based oil services company have filed a civil rights lawsuit, saying they were forced to work in facilities where racist graffiti, slurs and discrimination are commonplace.
Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, now promoting his new book "Leadership and Crisis," says he doesn't plan to run for president in 2012.
Patsy Mara doesn't doubt that her husband is the man the FBI calls the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in a string of bank robberies across the country. But the 61-year-old schoolteacher is struggling to reconcile the image of a holdup man who snatched money from two dozen banks with the gentle, loving husband she married just a year ago.
Gov. Bobby Jindal tried Tuesday to help broker a compromise between House and Senate leaders who are locked in a stalemate over the state's budget, and the governor said he doesn't expect the deadlock to force a special session.
Louisiana agencies have spent more than $5 million to combat the still-growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and they estimate the spending could top more than $20 million by next month, according to information provided to lawmakers Wednesday.
Harassing or intimidating someone by text message, e-mail or posts on social networking sites like Facebook would be deemed "cyberbullying" and would be a crime under a bill that advanced Tuesday in the Louisiana Legislature.
A challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter filed an ethics complaint Tuesday, claiming a fundraising letter for the Republican incumbent's campaign makes illegal use of a government emblem.
Gov. Bobby Jindal proposed a $24.2 billion budget Friday that cuts health care services and government jobs, spares college campuses and uses a patchwork of one-time funding to close a billion-dollar state revenue gap.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's refusal to raise taxes is boosting his stature with a re-energized national GOP, even while his state faces severe budget cuts to education, health care and social service programs.
Louisiana's top education board asked Thursday whether a schools superintendent should be forced to reimburse the state for misusing his state-owned vehicle for dozens of personal trips.
The latest round of college budget cuts, combined with threats of still more to come, provoked protest Tuesday from Louisiana State University faculty and students and a burgeoning movement that promised more organized opposition when negotiations on next year's budget begin.
Public colleges say they will shrink class offerings, slash library and athletics spending and hand out pink slips to employees as they make required budget cuts, according to plans submitted Friday to the Louisiana governor's office.
A convicted sex offender who confessed to killing his 12-year-old stepdaughter has been executed for the 2002 killing.
Even as Louisiana prepares to sell off more of its vehicles at a weekend auction, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration fell short of a December target to shrink the state-owned fleet by 10 percent.
Prisons are replacing guards with security cameras and cutting down on hot meals for inmates, the state's economic development arm is giving out fewer grants and the wildlife and fisheries department is paring back its aquatic weed control program.
Auto insurance rates will rise Friday for more than 1 million Louisiana motorists as a law increasing the required minimum liability coverage goes into effect.
Louisiana's revenue forecast dropped $197 million Thursday, driven by plummeting state sales taxes as shoppers shut their wallets and businesses shrink spending in the tight economy.
Cost-cutting recommendations that would shrink Louisiana's state work force, boost outside contracting and rework bureaucracy were offered by the Commission on Streamlining Government, which wrapped up its first report Tuesday.
Gov. Bobby Jindal asked the state's congressional delegation for months to help Louisiana shrink a massive and looming Medicaid deficit. U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu picked a measure that the Republican Jindal fervently opposes to attach the partial Medicaid fix, linking it to the Democrats' health overhaul bill.
Salary costs have jumped in Louisiana's education department, even as the number of full-time employees dropped, and the number of people drawing six-figure paychecks has more than doubled in the two years since Paul Pastorek took charge of the agency.
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