The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday opted not to intervene in a legal fight over Louisiana's disputed map of its six congressional districts, potentially delaying the adoption of one to replace a ...

A uthorities in Louisiana have warned people to prepare for extreme cold in the coming days, and a map by Newsweek shows where the polar vortex sweeping across large parts of the U.S. will hit the ...

The judge directed the legislature to draw a new map. But it did not, and the legal battle was renewed. In June 2022, the Supreme Court put the case on hold while it considered a similar one from ...

Nearly two years after a federal judge said that Louisiana’s congressional map diluted Black voting power, Black voters are at risk of voting for a second time in an election under a plan that ...

A federal court judge has ruled that Louisiana’s state legislative maps must be redrawn because they violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black votes. U.S. District Chief Judge Shelly Dick ...

At issue in Louisiana is a voting map passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature in the winter of 2022. The map carved the state into six districts, with only one majority-Black district ...

Louisiana has had an unprecedented wildfire season as dry conditions and extreme heat persist. The rapid spread of fires has been made worse by pine plantation forests, blown down by recent ...

A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana was struck down on Tuesday by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state ...

Thirty years ago, a report called out Louisiana’s petrochemical industry for building plants in areas with a large Black population. On Monday, a new update to the report found that little had ...