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The regular session ended Thursday, and lawmakers approved a $51 billion budget for the coming fiscal year, which starts in July.

Talk to most shrimpers and they will say this familiar foe is driving down the price of shrimp, making it nearly impossible for US shrimpers to hang on.

Small businesses, like The Little House in New Orleans, are a common target for cyber crimes. Experts say social media companies should do more to stop them.

The company is expected to create 175 direct new jobs over the next 10 years with a projected payroll of $12.5 million.

Certain New Orleans businesses are making a windfall off the event.

Louisiana residents have highest per capita power consumption in the nation.

The family-owned company of President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign co-chair in Louisiana has agreed to pay $1.025 million to resolve allegations that it hired workers ineligible to work in the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice announced this week.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, an effort to block possible action by the incoming Trump administration to expand offshore drilling.

But the state still lags behind most others in its rollout of federally-funded chargers along the interstate highway system.

A former employee of a cement and building materials company is suing for what he says was his wrongful termination for reporting wastewater pollution at a ready mix concrete plant in Metairie.