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

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

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 ...

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

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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 ...