Lifelong residents of St. James Parish will speak in federal court on Monday about how parish officials and ordinances have, for generations, explicitly directed industrial plants into predominantly ...

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

The Lens took home top honors in the education reporting, continuing environmental reporting and government/political reporting categories.

It’s become an all-too-familiar lament in New Orleans that the charter school system lacks accountability and transparency.

A year ago, when Jackson Parish opened its new, unlicensed juvenile jail, kids complained of extended stints of solitary confinement, along with extensive abuse and violations. A DCFS inspection ...

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 ...