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Louisianas black bear, made famous by Teddy Roosevelts pardon during 1902 hunting trip, was removed from the endangered species list in 2015.

Louisianas black bear, made famous by Teddy Roosevelts pardon during 1902 hunting trip, was removed from the endangered species list in 2015.

Louisianas black bear, made famous by Teddy Roosevelts pardon during 1902 hunting trip, was removed from the endangered species list in 2015.

Louisianas black bear, made famous by Teddy Roosevelts pardon during 1902 hunting trip, was removed from the endangered species list in 2015.

BATON ROUGE – As the Legislature gets ready to start a special session Tuesday on redistricting, one major focus is whether two of the state’s six congressional districts should be

Senator Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge: We wanted to make it clear that this will no longer be business as usual.

View Comments A powerful shot of hope and optimism was injected into Louisiana and numerous other states when a Louisiana federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction ruling that the ban on new oil and gas leases imposed by the Biden Administration must be lifted.  Finding that the ban failed to offer “any rational explanation” for its imposition, the court, through the grant of the injunction, reversed a January 2021 executive order by President Biden that halted lease sales o...

This is not the year to cut anything for tourism, said Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, who supports the states movie tax credit program.

Worker misclassification bills advancing in Legislature A Louisiana House committee approved a bill Thursday that seeks to change how state officials deal with employers that improperly classify their employees as independent contractors. Employers pay taxes into the unemployment trust fund based on their employee payroll. Claiming that your employees are contract workers allows an employer to dodge those taxes, forcing companies that play by the rules to shoulder more of the burden to support ...

We learned about all the gaps that existed Similar reporting legislation from former New Orleans lawmakers JP Morrell, who is running for a City Council seat, and Helena Moreno, who is serving on the City Council, was passed in 2015 but needed tightening after LSU found gaps to skirt those laws. “We want to make sure this behavior is corrected,” Barrow said previously. “What we thought was already in place. We learned about all the gaps that existed and about how individuals were able t...