
By Wes Muller | Reporter
“Allowing elections to proceed under an unconstitutional map would undermine the integrity of our system and violate the rights of our voters.” – Gov. Jeff Landry, in a statement after issuing an emergency order last week to suspend the May 16 congressional primary elections.
By Elise Plunk
The Louisiana Department of Health released its annual drinking water report card this week with letter grades assigned to the public water systems it monitors statewide. Find out if your water quality passed or failed.

Members of the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus and the House and Senate Democratic caucuses pose for photos during a news conference Monday at Mount Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge. Black lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Jeff Landry to negate his emergency order that suspended the May 16 primary elections for the state’s U.S. House of Representatives seats. (Photo by Piper Hutchinson/LAI)
By Piper Hutchinson
Since Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s decision to suspend primaries for the state’s U.S. House races, multiple legal challenges have been filed in state in federal court to resume the elections. We’ve summarized the cases so you can follow their status through the courts.
By David Lightman
The Trump reminders are all over. Walk the tourist walk from the Capitol down and around Pennsylvania Avenue, past the White House and on to the Lincoln Memorial and it’s clear who’s in charge.
By Amanda Watford
Across the country, state and local officials are increasingly looking for ways to expand mental health resources and testing new approaches aimed at reducing stigma and improving access to care for 911 dispatchers, police officers, firefighters, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
COMMENTARY
By John Pfaff
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry is pushing a slate of bills through the state legislature framed as “rightsizing” the state’s judicial system. But they are hard to see as anything more than an effort to punish the majority-Black, majority-Democratic New Orleans voters for making decisions state officials dislike
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