The U.S. Supreme Court is due to rule on Friday in a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an ...

The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.

A sweeping relief bill passed through Congress in late 2021 promised communities billions of dollars for new infrastructure — a promise that's now being realized.

A federal appeals court on Friday agreed with a lower-court ruling that Louisiana’s latest congressional map very likely violated the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters, and ...

NOAA's map shows how Louisiana would look if sea levels rose by 6 feet. NOAA. Cameron Parish, home to more than 5,600 people according to the 2020 census and known for the Creole Nature Trail ...

Louisiana's new congressional map is caught in a legal fight that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.

But Louisiana lawmakers, along with a group of Black voters and nonprofits who challenged the original map from 2022, asked the Supreme Court to intervene and allow the state to use the plan for ...

Black residents make up approximately one-third of the Louisiana population, according to the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick of the Middle District of Louisiana, a Barack Obama appointee ...

Two Donald Trump-appointed federal judges handed down a ruling Tuesday that would block Louisiana from using a newly authorized voter map that established an additional majority-Black district.