Solar power companies are proposing another seven large-scale solar-power ... projects being pitched for Louisiana, according to a grid operator planning map. In response to the latest round ...

The justices granted a request by Louisiana's Republican ... lawsuit that the Republican-drawn map maximizes "political power for white citizens" by packing large numbers of Black voters into ...

Opponents of Louisiana’s Republican-drawn political maps are optimistic the state could ... which ordered that state to create another district with a large Black population, upheld decades ...

See how prisoners escaped from Orleans Parish Prison, where 5 of 10 the inmates were caught, and the charges against those ...

The Louisiana legislature passed the map in February 2022 ... The plaintiffs said the Republican-drawn unlawfully packed large numbers of Black voters into a single district and dispersed the ...

Authorities 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 Black voters who initially sued the state over its 5-1 map secured a ruling in their favor in June 2022. US District Judge Shelly Dick – a Barack Obama appointee who is the chief judge of ...

The Louisiana dispute is one of ... at drafting a new map for Louisiana. That map was to include two districts in which Black voters represent a large enough share of the population to have ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request to speed up the redrawing of Louisiana's map of congressional districts, after a federal judge found that map likely dilutes the voting strength of ...