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 ...

Youth leaders in New Orleans call on city officials and parents to address systemic failures in opportunity, education, mental health, and accountability.

A former Angola prisoner recounts years of forced field labor under extreme heat as a federal class-action lawsuit challenges ...

The Trump administration is weaponizing the FACE Act to prosecute journalists, threatening press freedom and chilling First ...

A powerful polar vortex is plunging much of the U.S. into extreme cold. Scientists say climate change is intensifying winter ...

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 ...

As the state limits sharing of independent data, the Trump administration is delaying new testing requirements for dozens of ...

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s tough-on-crime laws are driving an $82 million surge in prison spending, as longer sentences increase incarceration and health care costs.

Louisiana income ranked third-lowest in the nation in 1970 and has maintained that rank. Higher incomes are tied to levels of ...

A pregnant, breastfeeding mother with two U.S.-born children remains detained by ICE in Louisiana, raising urgent concerns about health care, family separation, and immigration policy.

The Public Service Commission approved the power plants for the datacenter project by a 4-1 margin, sending a signal nationwide to all prospective datacenter companies: ‘Come to Louisiana, where they ...

After spending seven years trying to create a cultural hub on a venerable New Orleans block, a developer is offloading three of the block’s four landmark buildings that mark the beginnings of jazz ...