House Speaker Mike Johnson proposed a stopgap funding bill to maintain current federal spending levels through September 30.

Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana and Louisiana Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy react to President Trump's joint address to Congress.

Two Louisiana Republican state senators will be introducing a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would ban the use of fluoride in drinking water throughout the state.

We were freaking out,” the parish president said. “I was frantically on the phone that day because we were getting locked out of our systems.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled off an unexpected last-minute victory as he passed President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda by a single vote.

Rather than trepidation, Louisiana’s most health-vulnerable residents should feel elation that the Republican Congress is talking about changing Medicaid reimbursement rules for states. As part of federal government right-sizing discussions,

Some Republican senators are taking a wait-and-see approach on President Trump’s tariffs as the 2026 midterm elections loom.

The Louisiana Republican cautioned that once the courts no longer had "legitimacy," all three equal branches of government would collapse.

It has been a busy week in the news cycle for the Shreveport-Bossier area. And if you need a refresher on what you missed, here are the top five stories from the Shreveport Times. A Shreveport man was fatally struck by an 18-wheeler on I-20 Saturday, March 1. The victim was later identified as Darryl Ray Ware II, 31.

An octogenarian death row inmate scheduled to be Louisiana's first person put to death in 15 years next month has died, officials and his lawyer said.