After 90 minutes of tart debate and questioning, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee killed McMakin’s bill to nearly double membership on the East Baton Rouge Parish Executive Committee.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana bill that would redirect state funding to promote sporting events in Baton Rouge has cleared its first legislative hurdle. House Bill 226 ...

Senate Bill 636, sponsored by state Sen. Bodi White, R-Central, and drafted with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, would have provided for a major shift of power in the district from the central ...

A new bill in the Louisiana Legislature would move Baton Rouge's bus system under the control of the city-parish government, part of a wider push to centralize authority over independent agencies ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Nearly $60 million is headed to Baton Rouge from an infrastructure bill Congress recently passed. According to U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, the City of Baton Rouge will ...

WASHINGTON (WAFB) - Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome ... and electric vehicles. The bill was heavily debated in Congress but was eventually passed through a bipartisan agreement.

BATON ROUGE, La. — A bill to create a so-called “safety zone” around working law enforcement has now become law in Louisiana. Supporters, including Governor Landry, praise it as a way to ...

Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was censured by the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish on Wednesday after he voted not to dismiss the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.