By Greg LaRose | Editor-in-Chief
We’ll be at the Secretary of State’s office today through Friday to track candidates as they qualify for the May 16 party primaries.
Shrimper Keo Nguyen displays a sample of wild-caught Gulf of Mexico shrimp while on his boat docked east of Lake Borgne on Oct. 24, 2023. (Photo by Wes Muller/LAI)
By Wes Muller
Louisiana law requires restaurants to clearly indicate when they serve imported seafood, but hundreds have failed to do so, according to a review of state enforcement data from 2025. Restaurants reached for this report largely chalked up their violations to a simple oversight or not being aware of their supplier’s seafood source.
Twila Collins lives in the Modeste community in Ascension Parish, adjacent to the CF Industries ammonia plant. She suspects the facility and others along Cancer Alley have made neighboring residents sick. (Photo by Sean Gardner for Floodlight)
By Ames Alexander, Floodlight
Along Louisiana’s Mississippi River corridor, industrial companies are placing multibillion-dollar bets on “blue ammonia” — a product made from fossil fuels but with extra technology to capture planet-warming gases and pipe them underground for storage. Even if blue ammonia plants deliver the climate benefits their backers promise — benefits that experts dispute — their local impacts could still be substantial.
State Rep. Michael Echols, R-Monroe, intends to run for the 5th Congressional District seat U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow is vacating. (Submitted photo)
By Greg LaRose
A day before his birthday — and the start of qualifying for congressional races in Louisiana — Republican state Rep. Michael Echols, R-Monroe, announced he will seek the 5th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
By Greg LaRose
One of Gov. Jeff Landry’s floor leaders in the Louisiana Legislature will become leader of his executive staff. Rep Julie Emerson’s move from the legislative to the executive branch comes a couple of weeks after she ended her candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
By Julie O’Donoghue
The state’s six members of the U.S. House of Representatives and two U.S. senators sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump. In it, the lawmakers implore him to approve an emergency allocation from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay for storm cleanup.
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