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Early voting has concluded for the Nov. 13 election, and despite a lack of enthusiasm generated from the races themselves, mail-in voting continues to be a popular option during the pandemic.

Department of Justice lawyers argued Monday that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reverse course and allow the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for all large companies to remain in place until the court can hold a formal hearing to determine the fate of the policy.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is suing the federal government over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccination and testing requirements for all federal contractors. The move comes one day after the Biden administration issued a vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and businesses with more than 100 employees.

Children ages 5 to 11 can get the COVID-19 vaccine as early as today, after the Louisiana Department of Health gave providers the greenlight Wednesday morning to begin administering Pfizer doses immediately.

At COP26, Gov. John Bel Edwards has promoted wind energy, solar energy and the increased use of liquid natural gas in his "all of the above" approach to fighting climate change. But some activists back home expressed their frustrations Tuesday over the latter alternative.

As leaders of the world’s largest nations flock to Glasgow, Scotland for the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is a part of a small contingent of U.S. governors attending to discuss the role individual states have in fighting climate change.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has lifted the statewide mask mandate for most indoor settings, including schools that wish to opt out of the face covering requirement as long as they comply with other CDC requirements.

As Louisiana lawmakers kicked off their redistricting roadshow Wednesday, northeast Louisiana residents urged those leading the process to draw new political districts that better represent the state’s Black population, a change that would likely cost the state’s dominant Republican party a seat in Congress.

Louisiana lawmakers kicked off the months-long effort to redraw the state’s political districts last week, using new population data collected during the 2020 census.

At the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Delta’s landfall in Louisiana, state and local officials have mixed feelings about a long-awaited federal disaster relief bill that covers just a fraction of the estimated damage costs of that storm and Hurricane Laura before it.