As severe weather approaches southeast Louisiana today, we break down the timing and threats with the storms. A level 4 ...

The National Weather Service said a radar-confirmed tornado swept through Kentwood leaving significant damage in the area.

A New Orleans East developer wants to build an apartment complex for artists, but some of the neighbors are afraid the complex would wind up abandoned like several others.

The Biden administration had challenged a Republican-led redistricting plan that diluted the political power of minorities.

The Justice Department withdrew from a lawsuit alleging that Texas’ GOP-led redistricting after the 2020 U.S. census discriminated against Latino and Black voters.

Populations rose in many US cities last year. The two fastest-growing metros were in Florida.

Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 303,001 people lived in the county on July 1 last year, according to new population figures ...

Louisiana is one of the first states to formally update social studies standards to reflect the renaming of the Gulf of ...

Louisiana’s state board of education voted unanimously Tuesday to align the state’s fourth and fifth-grade social studies ...

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms ...