As the federal government announces a rule to eliminate all lead pipes within the next decade, tests by the Water ...

To convince Tulane University to divest from fossil fuels, students say, they must fight geography, history, and the school's ...

This week on Behind The Lens, in violation of state law the Jackson Parish Jail had been housing kids awaiting trial without ...

She is now past her first trimester and doing well. But after two miscarriages, she is aware that a new Louisiana law blocks ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

Lifelong residents of St. James Parish will speak in federal court on Monday about how parish officials and ordinances have, for generations, explicitly directed industrial plants into predominantly ...

A group of talented young African American men had little hope that the city could help them - until they learned the ways that the city could change.

Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl on a new Louisiana law that requires doctors to keep common maternal health care medications ...

Lawmakers passed a law designed to limit reproductive rights in Louisiana. But it may also limit patients’ chances of surviving common life events like miscarriages and births.

Nick Chrastil on the use of mace and pepper spray now allowed in juvenile detention facilities. Terry L. Jones on community ...

It’s become an all-too-familiar lament in New Orleans that the charter school system lacks accountability and transparency.