For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens seeks to focus on the inherent inequality that has created a multi-tiered ...

For more than a decade, we have reported on issues as well as public policy meant to address the needs of residents. The Lens seeks to focus on the inherent inequality that has created a multi-tiered ...

At Angola prison, holiday meals once brought joy and mass food poisoning. How cornbread dressing sickened hundreds and why oversight still matters.

When I saw the brother Jamar (McNeely) giving out turkeys and hams, I said, ‘Let me bring the vegetables,’” said DeLance ...

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 ...

River Birch LLC, which operates a landfill in Avondale, received a permit exemption last month from the Louisiana Department ...

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 ...