A mix of chemicals released by the explosion are being carried by the Tangipahoa River and could enter the local food chain, ...

Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to ...

Order continues for the second consecutive summer. Once the heat index hits 88 degrees, the DOC must provide some relief to the men working for pennies an hour in the prison’s fields.

Though Louisiana legislators passed a statewide ban against physical punishment in 2023, parents can still give permission for their children to be physically disciplined in school.

“Our community should still be proud of the long fight,” said longtime Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition leader Sade Dumas, as she stood outside the Phase III construction site last month.

This piece is being co-published with ExxonKnews, a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity (CCI), an advocacy group that provides research and tools to help communities hold oil and gas ...

Bernard Smith and Katy Reckdahl on the men trapped in the Orleans Parish Prison and Broad Street Bridge in the wake of the levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina that flooded New Orleans.

Rather than wait for her bus in the derelict lot in the 5300 block of St. Claude Avenue, Lower 9 resident Tori O'Connor waits for her bus in the neutral ground of St. Claude and only crosses the ...

William Holmes, with UL Lafayette’s energy institute, works with a student in the carbon capture lab. ExxonMobil donated $500,000 to the UL Lafayette's energy institute and public policy center to ...

There is a tangible shift in energy when a second line reaches the bridge, said Treme resident Shakur Trammel. For him, crossing the bridge transforms the “troubled waters” in his life, difficult ...

In January, an appeals court injected new life into Formosa’s plans to build a huge plastics plant in St. James Parish. But to make plastic requires vinyl chloride, which already has a toxic 40-year ...