Republican Baton Rouge Mayor-elect Sid Edwards was a political novice and high school football coach before his election.

Turnout for the presidential race in Louisiana furthered a disturbing trend toward less overall voter participation.

Even in Louisiana politics, two years before an election is unusually early for an incumbent U.S. senator to pick up a ...

President-elect Trump is responding to a decision made by Webb County Judge, Tano Tijerina, to switch from the Democratic to ...

Voters in Ascension Parish will have the chance to choose who they want to fill multiple positions including mayor of ...

Winning 54% of the vote, Edwards — a high school football coach — is the first Republican candidate to be elected ...

Photo: Alamy President Donald Trump celebrated major wins for the GOP this week, including two lawmakers switching from the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats failed Wednesday to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after independent Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema opposed the nomination, ...

In largely party-line votes, the House turned back two measures that would have forced the Ethics Committee to make public ...

In at least two dozen states with laws restricting or banning transgender care for minors. The Supreme Court will focus on ...

Trump has promised his base that his administration will enact mass deportations of people living in the country illegally.