The interactive map below shows the number of residents in each state that have served, as well as the percentage of the ...

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map, which has erupted into a ...

As property insurance premiums soar in Louisiana, many residents question whether recent reforms will bring relief ...

The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district likely to elect a Black representative. The justices sent the Louisiana case ...

Earlier in this election cycle, Black voters in Louisiana levied a legal challenge against the state's congressional map in stating ... hosted a majority-Black population despite a third of ...

Fluoride is added to drinking water across the U.S., but residents of some states are considerably more likely to be drinking ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the ongoing legal dispute over issues of race relating to Louisiana's ...

Yet the outcome stands to dictate whether Louisiana’s map can survive in future years ... citing the increase in the state’s Black population. A three-judge district court panel ruled in ...

Noting the size of the state’s Black population, civil rights advocates challenged the map in a Baton Rouge-based federal court and won a ruling from U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick that the districts ...

The winding fight over Louisiana's congressional redistricting plan began in 2022, when Republican state lawmakers adopted a map consisting ... third of the state's population is Black.