Bobby Jindal

Governor Bobby Jindal's push to sell and privatize three prisons in the state drew an apparent death knell yesterday.

Despite the threat of a veto, the state Senate has passed a bill to renew a 4-cents-a-pack tax on cigarettes that is scheduled to expire in 2012.

Today is the first day of the 2011 hurricane season, and Governor Bobby Jindal is urging Louisianians to "Get a Game Plan."

The Jindal administration's decision to slow plans for a $100 million upgrade to state government computer systems has escalated the price.

The Jindal administration wants lawmakers to leave a $125 million economic development fund alone, rather than use two-thirds of it to plug gaps in next year's budget.

Governor Bobby Jindal and CARBO Ceramics today announced the expansion of its Airport Industrial Park facility in New Iberia.

The Louisiana House has voted to renew a four-cent portion of the state’s 36-cent per pack cigarette tax that is set to expire in July 2012.

The House Appropriations Committee has cut nonessential spending across state agencies and raided a state economic development fund to balance next year's budget.

The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to open the Morganza spillway on Saturday, sending a torrent of water into the Atchafalaya River basin but taking the pressure off levees that protect populous Baton Rouge and New Orleans and oil refineries and industries.

The head of the Legislature's black caucus says Governor Jindal is trying to slow the redrawing of state education board districts in a bid to persuade board members to side with his choice for interim education superintendent.

Governor Jindal says efforts to protect communities from severe flooding from the rising Mississippi River are going on 'round the clock.

Governor Bobby Jindal continues to try and hammer home the point that those likely to be impacted by Mississippi River flooding in the coming days should be getting out of harm's way.

Governor Jindal is warning residents who live in the area of the Atchafalaya River basin to be prepared for the opening of the Morganza Spillway.

Legislation that would constitutionally dedicate more money for the TOPS scholarship program by using money from the tobbaco settlement is moving along in the state legislature.

Governor Bobby Jindal released his birth certificate which shows he was born in Baton Rouge to immigrant parents from India.

For a third time, Senator Mary Landrieu is urging the Obama administration to put more money into America's Disaster Relief Fund.

Governor Bobby Jindal says the additional rain in the Lower Ohio River Valley has emergency officials in Louisiana preparing for even higher Mississippi River water levels than previously estimated.

Governor Bobby Jindal says plans are to open the Bonnet Carre Spillway as early as Monday to ease pressure on Louisiana levees from the rising Mississippi River.

The Louisiana State Employees Retirement System board is opposing a Jindal administration proposal to increase state employee pension contributions, saying it could have constitutional problems.

Survey results released by Southern Media and Opinion Research finds Governor Jindal just as popular with voters now as he was last November.