Delaney Dryfoos on the the largest new delta in North America. Marta Jewson on how the decentralized New Orleans school ...

Parents said that their young child was too sick to go to school. But the school disagreed, and so the child received no ...

Bejasa, an avid bicyclist who spent three months in a wheelchair after being hit by a car, asks Lens readers to join her at ...

Writer David Muth asks the Louisiana Legislature to order the governor to proceed with the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion, ...

Last week, the state Senate Judiciary committee passed a bill that would automatically funnel all arrested 15- and 16-year-olds into the adult system. That’s not what Louisiana voters want.

As the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion flounders amid politics, some scientists say that doubts about its effectiveness can ...

Delaney Dryfoos on the Calcasieu River's concerning pollution. Marta Jewson on Lycee's $400k property tax bill and the city's offer to settle a lawsuit with the school board.

KIPP Leadership Academy's front sign shows state testing dates as the 2024-25 school year comes to a close. (Katy Reckdahl/The Lens) The Orleans Parish School Board will meet Monday morning to ...

Disciplinary incidents dropped sharply within the Orleans Justice Center with the advent of electronic tablets, which stay on for 17 hours a day, bringing those in the jail new options — movies, music ...

The shrimp stopped coming up the Calcasieu River after Venture Global built its Liquified Natural Gas terminal. The river’s ongoing pollution, on top of decades of hazardous waste dumping, earned the ...

The 17th Street Canal, one of about 50 levee/floodwall breaches in 2005. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) I have been following, with some amusement, the controversy over the nominations system ...