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

Her father tried to stop her. Her mother tried to stop her. But Sandra Nixon Thomas had made up her mind. She was going on a ...

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

A federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled that the bill, SB 256, is unconstitutional, issuing a temporary restraining order ...

State Supreme Court and judicial maps that favor Republicans, a party led almost entirely by white officials. State ...

Residents line up to vote in New Orleans on Election Day in 2024. Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has indefinitely postponed congressional primaries following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana ...

The number of detainees at Mississippi’s Adams County Correctional Center appears to have nosedived in the past few weeks, ...

The deal with Caesars, which will come before the New Orleans City Council next week, should also put the city on better ...

A new congressional map is likely to retain one majority-Black district, lawmaker says, but it may be based in Baton Rouge ...

Justice Samuel Alito halted for at least a week a lower federal court’s decision to ban access to mifepristone, an abortion ...

Duncan was sentenced to death for the murder of his former girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, but the conviction was ...

The Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act is one of the most important federal laws affecting Tribal ...