Secretary of State Nancy Landry has announced that all six voting system vendors that her office tested earlier this year passed certification. It comes as the office is working to select a new voting system to replace the current outdated one. Joel Watson with the Secretary of State's Office says the office did not re...

LSU's hiring of Lane Kiffin as its new head football coach is poised to yield a big economic impact for both the school and the City of Baton Rouge. Ever since LSU poached Kiffin from Ole Miss, the team has had more than 15,000 new season ticket requests, as well as a large uptick in corporate partner and donor interes...

LSU's Gulf Coast Energy Outlook predicts oil and gas production will continue to expand, and the state will continue to see investment in petrochemicals, LNG projects and energy-intensive manufacturing. Greg Upton, the interim director of the Energy Institute, says with advancements in technology, the oil and gas econo...

After a series of meetings that concluded Monday, a task force on NIL deals for student athletes is ready to prepare a series of bills for the upcoming legislative session. Homer Democratic Representative Rashid Young is on the task force and says one central theme that came out of the meetings was the fact that there ...

Farmers are in position to get federal assistance because of President Trump's $12 billion financial aid package for producers. LSU AgCenter economist Michael Deliberto says it's needed as farmers suffered through a tough 2025. "Farmers are still facing persistently low commodity prices, inflation, high input cost...