Louisiana Budget

About $43 million in spending, mainly earmarked for public safety programs, is stalled in the disagreement between Gov. John Bel Edwards and House…

The governor’s proposed budget calls for an 80 percent cut in state funding for TOPS, because of a one-billion dollar reduction in state revenues.…

Louisiana lawmakers, struggling with budget shortfalls, are again looking to restructure the TOPS college tuition program to lessen costs.Proposals…

As Louisiana struggles with budget woes, lawmakers are realizing millions remain socked away in savings accounts that agencies, boards and commissions…

With time running short, Louisiana's lawmakers have moved the pieces of a budget-rebalancing deal into place. But final passage of the plan to close a…

Louisiana's lawmakers got an official number for the financial cliff they've created for themselves in 2018: nearly $1.5 billion. That's how short the…

Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne says there will be fewer construction projects in Louisiana for the next couple of years because of budget…

“Who the hell cares what Grover says?” Apparently the Senate does, while the House could not care less. The Senate passed their “new and improved”...

Both the House and Senate worked over the weekend. Yet even Revenue Secretary Tim Barfield – the governor’s point man on tax increases and tax offsets -...

The Louisiana Association of Business and Industry is considered to be one of the most influential lobbies at the state capitol. But this year, with a...