We have much work to do,” Hunter writes, “to ensure that an anti-terrorist component is part of the planning process for ...

Louisiana secured the bill’s largest project authorization, for St. Tammany Flood Risk Management. New Orleans scored authorization for a study about salt water in the river.

Delaney Dryfoos on the sale of Entergy New Orleans' natural gas arm to a new entity and La'Shance Perry on the legal challenge to Act 246, the nation's strongest law blocking certain reproductive ...

Jo and Joy Banner, co-founders of The Descendants Project, announced the nonprofit’s acquisition of the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, La. The plantation, site of the largest slave revolt in American ...

On Monday afternoon, after traveling seven miles from a camp not far from the Superdome, Joe Ferrara finally neared the governor's new Transition Center. He planned to camp outside until it opened on ...

“Nova,” by Jacob Kainen, 1977, watercolor and pastel with ink marker and pen and black ink on wove paper. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) ...

Jordan Brown, 17, an award-winning debater and a senior at Delores T. Arthur School for Young Men, which closed on Friday after the charter school’s board surrendered its charter. For Jordan’s last ...

“I am a member of the Point Lookout burial crew,” say Lawson Strickland. “We are volunteer trusty inmates who bury inmates here at Angola's Point Lookout cemetery when they are unclaimed by their ...

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The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.