After years of FOIA requests and research, security engineer Matthew Wollenweber knows that NOPD is lying about their ...

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

A state law passed last year required cities to share a portion of school-zone camera tickets with the schools themselves.

This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana reclassifies natural gas as “green energy” under a controversial new law signed by ...

Over the course of several hours, before most of the city even finished their morning coffee, Lens photographer Gus Bennett ...

Death Row doesn’t just steal years—it rewires your soul. It leaves trauma buried in your body. It isolates you even after you ...

It’s unclear how the school’s order affected the student, who did return, but sporadically. But the school district sent Fannie C. Williams administrators a serious ‘notice of noncompliance’ in the ...

Mizani Ball on ethnographic dancer Chipo Kandake on her history of American music performance. Marta Jewson on improving ...

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson requires Angola prison officials to monitor temperatures every 30 minutes. When heat index hits 88, Farm Line workers get regular breaks, ice, water, and shade, the ...

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