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The governor recommended a $5 million cut to State Police, but the House’s spending plan calls for much deeper cuts.

Lawmakers are once again proposing more changes to the TOPS scholarship program.

To rebalance this year's budget, Gov. John Bel Edwards is levying all of a $70 million spending reduction on the state health department and sparing Louisiana's public colleges.

Other changes to TOPS may occur during the upcoming legislative session that begins Sunday.

Governor Bobby Jindal is back in Louisiana to perform more slight of hand to balance the budget.

This latest over-budget incident is enough to make your blood boil.

State Legislators argued during the legislative session that only a majority vote was needed to fix a $1.6 billion deficit

The VA also faces a budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion.

Johns' bill would have created a pilot program allowing the practice until 2021.

Jindal also signed bills to cap the state's payment on film tax credits at $180 million annually for the next three years.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Health care topped the list of requests from people who asked senators to include their needs in Louisiana's $24 billion budget for next year.
With money tight and cuts on the horizon, the wants far outweigh the dollars available as the Senate Finance Committee held…

Legislative leaders haven't coalesced behind a plan yet.