A proposed Biden-administration regulation change could bar the state from using federal dollars for child-protective ...

Marta Jewson and La'Shance Perry on their interview with a women about what it's like to be pregnant in Louisiana after the fall of Roe. Delaney Dryfoos on St. James residents' fight against industry.

Drinking water samples were collected as part of the Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans’ residential lead testing study. A preponderance of local homes have lead in their water, if the ...

FALL SEMESTER IS IN FULL SWING at Tulane University. However, for senior Emma De Leon, it’s a bittersweet time. Last year, De Leon dedicated her time to the construction of a document which was meant ...

This week on Behind The Lens, in violation of state law the Jackson Parish Jail had been housing kids awaiting trial without the required license to house them — and, somehow, without the knowledge of ...

On Saturday afternoon, I sat down for two-and-a-half hours with a group of young African American men, between the ages of 18 and 22, hearing what they think about our city. Arthur Hunter They all ...

River Parish homes with industrial smokestacks as their backdrop. Over generations, racially discriminatory zoning laws have transformed majority-Black communities into what is now known as Cancer ...

Marta Jewson and Katy Reckdahl on a new Louisiana law that requires doctors to keep common maternal health care medications ...

Sarah Stickney Murphy, her husband Brendan Murphy, at home with their kids. Three of their children attend Lycée Français. (La'Shance Perry/The Lens) It’s become an all-too-familiar lament in New ...

Art for The Lens by Mizani Ball. In early April, inspectors from the state’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) traveled to north Louisiana to visit the Jackson Parish Jail. Their ...

This week on Behind The Lens, in one of its first moves since taking over licensing and oversight from the Department of Children and Family Services, the state Office of Juvenile Justice has ...