Thousands of residents living in East Baton Rouge Parish are in the dark Thursday afternoon due to a power outage.

The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has a new congressional map, with a second majority-Black district, after Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed it into law on Monday. The new map is a win for Black ...

Just a few days after a regular session ended, Louisiana lawmakers are bracing for up to a $4 billion loss in federal ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — A proposed Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district, which could deliver another U.S. House seat to Democrats, received bipartisan support and ...

Long Federal Building in Baton Rouge, attorneys for civil rights ... groups in a separate case that challenged Louisiana’s congressional map. That map has only one majority-Black district ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Legislature passed a congressional map with a second majority-Black district on Friday, marking a win for Democrats and civil rights groups after a legal ...

when a federal district court in Baton Rouge issued the first decision in this long-running dispute. The judge, Shelly Dick, found the original map of Louisiana's six congressional districts that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana Legislature has until Jan. 15 to enact a new congressional map after a lower court last year ruled that the current political boundaries dilute the power of the ...

Louisiana's congressional map has twice been challenged in federal ... miles from Louisiana's northwest corner of Shreveport to Baton Rouge, in the state's southeast. They argued in the lawsuit ...