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 ...

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 ...

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

A bulk storage facility plans to join with activists from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network to monitor air quality ...

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

The Lens took home top honors in the education reporting, continuing environmental reporting and government/political reporting categories.

A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection ...