The threat from flesh-eating bacteria in beaches and rivers is growing by the week, with reported cases now in the double ...

WDSU reporter Shay O'Connor went to the mural in the Lower 9th Ward, aiming to show kids there is a brighter future in New Orleans. "The wall addresses several points of time: Pre-Katrina, during ...

Louisiana has a long history as a port state, and remnants of this history remain in the state's preserved lighthouses.

The U.S. is home to infamous waterfalls, but Louisiana has a few falls of its own. The best waterfall in the state according ...

The Peter White Public Library stands as one of the finest small-city libraries in the Midwest, with not only an extensive collection but also community programming, meeting spaces, and a welcoming ...

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was follow-up legislation to the Civil Rights Act passed a year earlier. In a break from tradition, then-President Lyndon Johnson went to Capitol ...

The redistricting fight in Texas has exploded onto the national scale as Texas Democrats scatter to all corners of the country in an effort to blast Republicans’ proposed gerrymandering ahead of next ...

When Democratic lawmakers left Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...

When Democratic lawmakers fled Texas to try to prevent the Republican-led Legislature from redrawing the state’s ...

A last-ditch effort by California Democrats to redraw the state’s congressional map for the 2026 election, countering a similar push by Texas Republicans, is now up against the ...

Nearly 60 years after Dr. King stood behind President Johnson as he signed the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court is now asking a chilling question: Does Black representation in Congress still ...