Katrina days, but families had to weather the growing pains of the charter movement, including too many school closures, ...

No, the East’s rebuilding wasn’t limited to tall apartments on top of three or four levels of parking garages, despite what was proposed. And, yes, homes in neighborhoods built on former marshland ...

Picayune environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein on the federal flood after the U.S. Army Corps' levees failed and flooded ...

Summer temperatures are only going to keep rising. We need a stronger, smarter, more connected grid before the next heatwave pushes us past the breaking point.

In a lawsuit about a slaughterhouse that once stood at the Alabo site, the U.S. Supreme Court first interpreted the 14th ...

This week on Behind The Lens, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell withdrew a nominee for a spot on the board of directors for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board earlier this month. The candidate, ...

Until they were stopped by Louisiana legislators, neighbors around North Claiborne Avenue in New Orleans and communities within Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” were able to view local air-quality, measured ...

“We’re proud to partner with LSU, to contribute to the growing compendium of peer-reviewed climate science and advance the effort to identify multiple pathways that can lead to more energy with fewer ...

Though they once applauded the jail’s ambitious, federally overseen reforms, community groups and political leaders in New Orleans united in opposition to a key mandate stemming from those efforts: ...

A bill on its way to the Governor’s desk—with connections to gas industry allies—could enshrine hydrocarbons as Louisiana’s future.

Some advocates worry it could lead to increased police presence in already under-resourced areas. But the DA’s office says that the data is only a first step.

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 ...