An effort to give voters a chance to decide if the minimum wage should be raised to nine dollars an hour has died in the Louisiana Senate.
New Orleans Senator Wesley Bishop says he knows he’ll hear from his constituents who are disappointed that the legislature failed again to increase the minimum wage…
A bill to certify veteran-owned businesses heads to the Senate floor after unanimously passing through the Senate commerce committee. Any business that is majority owned by veterans would be provided a statewide insignia to display. Governor John Bel Edwards says the bill will also create a database of veteran-owned business…
Edwards says as a former army ranger he hopes House Bill 391 will boost employment for veterans in need of work as they use the database to job hunt.
The state transportation department says a worker was killed while in a work zone on the I-10 Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Don Molino has more…
Governor Edwards is requesting Federal Disaster Assistance for Lincoln, Morehouse and Union Parishes following the devastating tornadoes that killed two people and left a trail of more than 12-million dollars in damage. The tornadoes killed a mother and son in Lincoln Parish in late April and also severely damaged the campus of Louisiana Tech University. 206 homes were also destroyed. The Governor is requesting both FMEA Public Assistance and Individual Assistance.