The Louisiana Senate offered little resistance Thursday to a proposed constitutional amendment that would empower legislators ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won a Louisiana congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district. That flips ...

Fields, who has been serving in the state Legislature, had been a member of the ... that transformed the 6th District to a ...

Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a ...

In a legislative session devoted mostly to tax policy, Louisiana lawmakers are taking steps to empower themselves to set up ...

Troy Carter of New Orleans has represented the 2nd District ... Each deals with issues of great importance to his district.

The new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily ...

The state’s Republican-dominated legislature drew a new congressional ... a new map and a second district that could elect a Black lawmaker. The justices returned the Louisiana case to federal ...