This week on Behind The Lens, oily waste from the Smitty’s Supply fire in August has until now been stored and recycled at other sites, but an emergency exemption from the Louisiana Department of ...

A historic 7th Ward bar faces eviction as new ownership threatens a century of Black cultural traditions, exposing New Orleans’ deep racial wealth divide.

The NOLA Public Schools district earned its first B letter grade since the schools returned to the district’s control in 2018, after being seized from the Orleans Parish School Board in the aftermath ...

The shutdown is over, how did the state do in protecting its most vulnerable. And charters await their fate with state evaluations. [...]Read More... from Kicking the Can: SNAP during the shutdown and ...

Millions of gallons of oily water and spilled petrochemicals from the Smitty’s Supply fire and explosion have been handled at three different sites, but state officials have granted an emergency ...

This story was originally published by Stateline. States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions occur while others try to ...

This story was originally published by Sierra Magazine. In April, Louisiana Tech University ecologist Julia Earl received a distressing notice from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant ...

This week on Behind The Lens, a Cameron Parish judge has ruled that state officials violated the Louisiana Constitution when they issued a permit for a liquified gas export terminal, which has since ...

The assertion that New Orleans public schools are “better off” after 20 years of reform is delusional, at least from the perspective of a native New Orleanian and parent of three children who have ...

A new report warns that Big Tech’s rapid buildout of data centers across the South could usher in a new wave of environmental and economic harms for Black and working-class communities, drawing ...