Public input on new boundaries will be limited after GOP legislators rejected two proposals Tuesday their author said would ...

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A two-year exemption loosening emissions standards at some petrochemical plants could pump nearly 5.3 million additional tons ...

To stand behind his statement, the governor must willingly ignore the significant portion of Louisiana residents among the working poor in a state with the nation’s highest poverty rate.

Without them, most local farmers acknowledge, there would be no planting, no harvest. Local workers are impossible to find, ...