THE FINAL WEEKDAY WORKDAY FOR NEW ORLEANS MAYOR LATOYA CANTRELL ON MONDAY, MAYOR ELECT HELENA MORENO TAKES OFFICE AFTER ...

BATON ROUGE - Ahead of the spring election, Louisiana lawmakers switched the state to a closed-party primary system, meaning ...

The Supreme Court is set to weigh in on laws like the Voting Rights Act and limits on coordinated party expenditures.

Three of the 15 board members’ terms expired Jan. 1. The governor controls all seats now open to new appointees.

This year’s midterms will serve as a referendum on the first two years of President Donald Trump’s second term and will shape his final two years in office.

Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the longest-serving Democrat in Congress, announced Thursday that he will retire at the end of ...

The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a ...

A special election has been called to fill the Louisiana House District 69 vacancy after Republican Baton Rouge state Rep.

The decision to withdraw is part of an aggressive assault on climate efforts by President Trump. His administration has rolled back climate regulations, removed scientific data on climate change from ...

Republicans’ hopes that a Supreme Court redistricting ruling will boost them in 2026 are fading as election deadlines close in.

Venezuela’s opposition supporters have long hoped for the day when Nicolás Maduro is no longer in power — a dream that was ...

The U.S. seized Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores in a military operation Saturday, removing them both from their home on a ...