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.

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, ...

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 ...

While research from the 1990s on minority-opportunity districts did not find consistent turnout effects, more recent analysis ...

The Religious Landscape Study (RLS) – conducted in 2007, 2014 and 2023-24 – surveys more than 35,000 Americans in all 50 states about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices along with ...

More than 40 percent of the population there relies on Medicaid, the public health insurance plan for low-income Americans. In eastern Louisiana, where Representative Julia Letlow, a Republican ...