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After years of handwringing over how to spruce up its unsightly and often unsafe drainage canals, Jefferson Parish is testing out a new strategy: camouflaging them with trees.

The Gov. Jeff Landry-backed bill seeks to shield documents used for deliberations and decision-making at all levels of government.

In your Breakdown: Senator Heather Cloud says she will dial back some of her efforts to cast a dark shadow over Louisiana’s sunshine laws

A New Orleans-based lawmaker filed legislation late Tuesday to dismiss the local overseers of the beleaguered Sewerage and Water Board in favor of a temporary board made up of state and local officials, a drastic step recommended by Gov. Jeff Landrys task force on the utility that had drawn a rebuke from the S&WBs executive director hours earlier.

A New Orleans lawmaker late Tuesday submitted a bill that would make sweeping changes to how the Sewerage & Water Board is governed, shifting power from Mayor LaToya Cantrell towards

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has faced criticism for taking too many trips around the globe on the taxpayer’s dime. But more troubling to us is that even when Cantrell

Clarence “C.C” Copeland, president and CEO of Louisiana Public Broadcasting, has been elected to the Board of Trustees for America’s Public Television Stations.

The upcoming school safety mill levy would provide gang prevention education. If it were to pass, School District 2 would implement some safety measures.

New Orleans City Council members are pressing forward with plans to enshrine an unprecedented local investment in affordable housing into the City Charter, a move aimed at expanding programs to

The task force will include 14 members who will review the billing process, governing structure and the management and organizational structure of SWBNO.