Denham Springs Representative Roger Wilder has decided not to move forward with a bill that would dramatically increase the tax rate for online sports betting, from 15% to 51%. Wilder filed the bill to boost state revenue by an estimated $150 million dollars a year to help offset legislation to reduce income tax rates...

Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves is hailing the overwhelming House passage of the Social Security Fairness Act. The bill that passed 327 to 75 eliminates the Windfall Elimination Penalty and the Government Pension Offset. Graves says Louisiana has been among the most impacted by these two provisions. "(There ha...

A woman claimed that her son had been kidnapped. The St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office, however, determined it to be something else entirely. Major Mark LeBlanc says Artasia Viges and her son, who's less than five years old, had a disagreement while she was driving in Eunice. "As the mother pulled the car over, t...

The Louisiana House has approved two significant pieces of Governor Jeff Landry's tax plan. The first bill to head to the Senate for its approval is a measure reduce individual income taxes to a flat three-percent rate. Carencro Representative Julie Emerson is the sponsor of the bill... "We're starting off with th...

Several media outlets are reporting Republicans will retain control of the U-S House completing the GOP trifecta in Washington. In a press conference today on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Mike Johnson from Bossier Parish says Republicans are ready to deliver on Trump's agenda. "This leadership will...