J. Bennett Johnston, a pro-business Democrat who during 24 years in the U.S. Senate steadfastly defended Louisiana’s oil and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Illuminator) - Gov. Jeff Landry has selected a former Gov. Bobby Jindal cabinet member who was ...

A home care company owned by a former state senator owes millions in unpaid taxes and faces a lawsuit from the children of an ...

Greenstein will join Surgeon General Ralph Abraham in leading the state's largest agency with an annual budget exceeding $20 ...

A Louisiana Senator has drafted proposed legislation calling for juvenile prosecution during this year's Legislative Session. Shreveport Republican Senator Alan Seabaugh introduced Senate Bill 74 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Longtime Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston has died at the age of 92. Johnston was elected to the Senate as a moderate Democrat in 1972, and he served four terms until ...

J. Bennett Johnston, a U.S. senator who represented Louisiana for 24 years, died March 25, 2025 of complications from COVID-19 at a hospital in McLean, Virginia at the age of 92. Here's some ...

He was 92 years old. Johnston was a Democrat and Shreveport native who served in the U.S. Senate for four terms. He retired from office in 1997. During his tenure, he served as chairman of the ...

The senator and the council also discussed how the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Opportunity Machine incubators support their efforts in expanding opportunities for future tech ...

Senator Alan Seabaugh introduced a bill that would allow district courts to handle felony cases where the juvenile was 15 years or older. Louisiana voters previously rejected a similar amendment ...