A previous effort to bring the ‘Field of Dreams’ stadium project to the 9th Ward was abandoned after the funds raised for it ...

A fast-moving bill in the Louisiana Legislature aims to expand the number of wood pellet mills in the state — despite some ...

Keith Ezidore, a 73-year-old man who spent more than three decades in prison on a murder conviction that was overturned last ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...