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— Attorney General Liz Murrill (@AGLizMurrill) March 24, 2025 Louisiana’s current map was adopted after a federal court ruled its original post-2020 census map, with just one black-majority ...

It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisiana’s latest redistricting plan. The state and a group of Black voters ask the justices to ...

A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had ... following the Red River, a major tributary of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which has two Black majority districts for the first time. Several of the court ...

“Midway through this decade, neither Louisiana nor its citizens know what congressional map they can call home.” The case, Louisiana v. Callais, tees up a series of important questions that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry has announced a major restructuring of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP), placing it under the ...

The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote declined to stop Louisiana from carrying out its first execution in 15 years later Tuesday with Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the court’s three liberal justices in ...

(Louisiana First) — Gov. Jeff Landry signed an executive order to start using the “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” in state documents and maps. The order directs the ...