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Because of an improper appropriation, LSU’s plans to upgrade the Pete Maravich Assembly Center will get started with significantly less funding than anticipated. But just how the inappropriate expense got

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette received more than $44 million from the Louisiana legislature in capital funding to renovate existing buildings on campus and build labs and training facilities.

After years of belt-tightening, Louisiana’s institutions of higher education are finally taking home some bacon amid the state’s budget boon, with major investments in higher education spread across the state’s

The Louisiana budget plan includes hundreds of millions in investments in campus infrastructure, research, faculty pay and more

Spending bills approved by the Legislature include millions of dollars for renovations at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Loranger Branch library and for health services, tourism, and economic development in

In the midst of all the chaos during the final minutes of the session, lawmakers were forced to vote on several amendments to the state budget with little to no time to review them.

The Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office and jail would receive $21.6 million over the next year under the current state budget proposal.

Louisiana legislators could struggle to fund public school teacher pay raises and a state construction plan.

Rapides Parish Assessor Rick Ducote has updated some of his numbers after the Illuminator published an investigation that revealedsuper low property values for multiple elected officials. 

Sheriff Mark Wood, for example, has been billed $0 for property taxes on his own home for at least the past seven years.