Bernard Smith on conditions at Angola as heat alerts persist across the country. Gus Bennett on Essence Fest's rapid ...

Men incarcerated within Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola want relief from the prison’s extreme heat and overcrowding.

The reason for the city’s May blackout is Entergy, which uses its transmission system to prevent competition and maximize ...

Delaney Dryfoos on what the Alabo Street Wharf development may mean for neighbors. Matthew Wollenweber on NOPD's use of ...

The governor-appointed board chair who says he’s involved with staff 16 hours a day should not be involved in day-to-day operations. He seems to be filling a vacant position and acting as the regional ...

“Our community should still be proud of the long fight,” said longtime Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition leader Sade Dumas, as she stood outside the Phase III construction site last month.

Artist and poet José Torres-Tama created his new Katrina @ 20 exhibition: No Papers! No Fear!, which opens on Friday, to commemorate the immigrants who contributed to an epic New Orleans rebirth — ...

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Since the 1970s, researchers have that shown oil and gas activities are one of the major causes for the catastrophic loss of 2,000 square miles of coastal wetlands — a slow-moving disaster that has ...

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

Local governments request more than $500 million to build regional and local juvenile-detention facilities — and to repair and construct some adult jails.

At Louisiana’s flagship university, oil companies can influence research and coursework for a price. One critic described the industry votes on research agendas, as described in the boilerplate ...