Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, they're 16th. Here's how the state, and one rural district, pulled it off.

The declines in parish populations come as statewide population estimates, released in December, showed that Louisiana’s ...

Last November, the new majority-Black 6th district voted in U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields. The district, in its previous, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates 303,001 people lived in the county on July 1 last year, according to new population figures ...