Justice Samuel Alito halted for at least a week a lower federal court’s decision to ban access to mifepristone, an abortion ...

Gov. Jeff Landry postponed six congressional primary elections after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Louisiana’s redistricting ...

A federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled that the bill, SB 256, is unconstitutional, issuing a temporary restraining order ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) is one of the most significant pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.

The nurses union claims that hospital management has used bad-faith bargaining tactics to drag out negotiations for more than ...

The number of detainees at Mississippi’s Adams County Correctional Center appears to have nosedived in the past few weeks, ...

Duncan was sentenced to death for the murder of his former girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, but the conviction was ...

A crowd of supporters hold up signs as Calvin Duncan is sworn in as Clerk of Criminal Court outside Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on April 21, 2026. Credit: Christiana Botic/Verite News and ...

The deal with Caesars, which will come before the New Orleans City Council next week, should also put the city on better ...

State Supreme Court and judicial maps that favor Republicans, a party led almost entirely by white officials. State ...

A jazz violinist, Piron led dance bands from the 1910s through the 1930s and co-owned a publishing company with pianist ...

For more than 50 years, Jazz & Heritage Festival posters have depicted iconic New Orleans musicians. Each year’s poster ...