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 ...

Over the past 75 years, more than a dozen Black proprietors have run the First and Last Stop Bar, a longtime gathering spot ...

As a district, NOLA Public Schools improved from a C to a B. The move up appears to be driven by a jump in A-rated schools in ...

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 story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here. Residents of the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast are ...

This story was originally published by the Louisiana Illuminator. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit this week that calls on the federal government to strike down rules that allow ...

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 ...

Update: After publication, Tulane University’s spokesperson raised concerns about other videos that Rahman posted, including one in which she said this: “We are revoking the Holocaust sympathy card.

This week on Behind The Lens, with little public input, Exxon received local government approval to install a pipeline to carry highly-compressed carbon dioxide in St. James Parish in the area widely ...