The recent escape of 10 individuals from the New Orleans Correctional Center has quickly shifted from a public-safety crisis ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

For the second consecutive year, a federal judge tells the DOC to provide Farm Line workers with protections from the sweltering Louisiana heat. Women hoeing in the fields at the Louisiana State ...

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 services last year, then started this year with no services. It’s still unclear ...

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, "the single most important restoration project in Louisiana history. " ...

As politicians argue over just how much land the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion could build along a rapidly sinking coast, geologist Alex Kolker regularly makes the 65-mile drive down from New ...

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 ...