As the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion flounders amid politics, some scientists say that doubts about its effectiveness can ...

Last week, the state Senate Judiciary committee passed a bill that would automatically funnel all arrested 15- and 16-year-olds into the adult system. That’s not what Louisiana voters want.

Delaney Dryfoos on the Calcasieu River's concerning pollution. Marta Jewson on Lycee's $400k property tax bill and the city's offer to settle a lawsuit with the school board.

On Monday, the Orleans Parish School Board will hear the city’s offer to settle the school board’s 2019 lawsuit. But over the past five months, as the two parties negotiated, charter leaders have been ...

Disciplinary incidents dropped sharply within the Orleans Justice Center with the advent of electronic tablets, which stay on for 17 hours a day, bringing those in the jail new options -- movies, ...

The shrimp stopped coming up the Calcasieu River after Venture Global built its Liquified Natural Gas terminal. The river’s ongoing pollution, on top of decades of hazardous waste dumping, earned the ...

The 17th Street Canal, one of about 50 levee/floodwall breaches in 2005. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) I have been following, with some amusement, the controversy over the nominations system ...

Women hoeing in the fields at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, back when the prison still kept women there. (Artwork by The Lens based on a photo by Winans, Louisiana State Museum) On ...

Joy and Jo Banner founded the Descendants Project to document the lineages of enslaved people and promote the well-being of Black people along the Mississippi River in Louisiana. (Photo by La'Shance ...