The Adult Education Center opened in 1965, offering tuition-free training that prepared Black women to integrate the city’s ...

A documentary centered on a small Mississippi River parish had been racking up awards, earning prizes at film festivals in ...

Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a Republican-backed map that would drop Louisiana to just one congressional district that ...

The May 16, 2026 statewide election is shaping up to be one of the most unusual ballots in recent memory. What would ...

The remaining majority-Black district in the proposal is essentially the same one U.S. Rep. Troy Carter won in 2022.

Sawdust piles up at Drax’s wood pellet mill near Urania, Louisiana. The mill presses sawdust into pellets that are burned in a former coal plant in Yorkshire, England. Credit: Eric J. Shelton / ...

The money for the immigration facility comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, not state dollars. But it is ...

U.S. Rep. Troy Carter called a town hall to discuss the state’s redistricting efforts. Civil rights advocates were in ...

AG Liz Murrill called the council’s moves, taken in response to a new state law that abolished the clerk’s office won by ...

When cleaning crews dug deep into New Orleans’ clogged drains in 2018, they pulled up leaves, mud — and 46 tons of Mardi Gras ...

It will take two years for the National Park Service to replace damaged infrastructure and reopen the preserve. Scientists ...