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WWNO/WRKF has partnered with the Louisiana Illuminator to launch “The Light Switch,” a new weekly podcast focused on Louisiana politics.

“Baby Don’t” is the New Orleans musician’s third studio album and her attempt at making a Louisiana record “her way.”

A New Orleans woman has taken up residence atop a decades-old tree in her yard to protest its removal after city officials informed her it was permanently damaged during street construction.

The City of New Orleans and the Department of Justice asked a judge to move toward ending consent decree after years of federal oversight.

Plans to build a football stadium in the 9th Ward are moving forward again, after a nearly decade-long delay.

A proposed TopGolf site, an abandoned hospital and New Orleans’ tree canopy have been named to an annual list of the city’s most endangered sites.

A legislative commission tasked with researching and recommending a new voting system for Louisiana elections decided Wednesday to delay the final recommendations so members could physically inspect the different systems and machines under consideration.

After weeks of debate, Republican state lawmakers ended Louisiana’s redistricting session by pushing through new congressional and state legislative maps that did not increase minority representation, despite Democrats’ and civil rights groups' claims that failing to do so could violate federal law.

A surprise bipartisan effort to redraw Louisiana’s nearly 25-year-old state Supreme Court map and bring more minority representation to the bench died on the House floor Wednesday after the chamber’s Republican majority tabled the bill, prematurely suspending debate and preventing a vote.

After weeks of fiery debate, Louisiana lawmakers in the House and Senate advanced proposals to redraw their own legislative districts Monday without meaningfully increasing the number of majority-Black districts in the state legislature.