The highest point in the state of Louisiana, Driskill Mountain clears Athens Lookout by a whopping 35 feet. It also has the ...

Parts of New Orleans and its surrounding wetlands are gradually sinking, and while most of the city remains stable, a new ...

Democratic U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields represents the second majority-Black 6th Congressional District that include Shreveport.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Friday to rule in a dispute involving a Louisiana electoral map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state, with the justices ...

Major Supreme Court ruling shifts powers of federal judges, Trump administration 08:13. Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday ordered further arguments over Louisiana's congressional map that ...

The Supreme Court on Friday put off deciding whether to uphold a Louisiana map that added a second majority-Black congressional district in the state, saying it would rehear the case in its next term.

Louisiana officials react after the U.S. Supreme Court delayed its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case, with Justice Clarence Thomas warning that race-based distr… ...

The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. The state used a contested map to hold elections in 2024; voters elected a second Black Democrat, Cleo Fields, to their congressional delegation.

Louisiana legislators drew a second map, this time with a second Black-majority district. Then, a group of self-described “non-African American voters” then challenged the second map, calling ...

Louisiana’s current map with two majority-Black districts remains in effect. The re-argument of the case will likely occur during the fall. Louisiana’s current congressional map, known as S.B. 8, was ...