To rebuild the coast, Louisiana must show its river diversions won’t kill native dolphins
They can’t survive if the water isn’t salty enough, and they won’t leave their home in Barataria Bay.
Props to NOPD for upgrading its response to domestic violence
No more brushing incidents aside as merely personal.
Permit for first sediment diversion will take at least 2.5 years (and that’s fast)
Federal regulators must make sure the diversion won't violate 82 laws and executive orders.
Reclaiming native ground: Can Louisiana’s tribes restore their traditional diets as waters rise?
Native Americans are losing their ability to live off the land as it has crumbled into the Gulf of Mexico. Some of them are trying to figure out how to survive on what's left. A multimedia collaboration between the Food & Environment Reporting Network, Gravy, and The Lens.
Time to toss non-unanimous jury verdicts, a vestige of Jim Crow
Louisiana is one of two states that tolerate this unjust legal shortcut.
Where’s Gottschalk? It’s time to plug a gaping hole in the LPO repertoire
Why does Prieto ignore New Orleans' most revered classical composer?
Some opposition to Trump goes unanswered, literally, by Louisiana’s senators
Constituents are frustrated that they can’t say their piece about the president's appointees and executive orders.
News ‘n’ Brews, an informal happy hour with Lens reporters, is Feb. 16
Immigrant rights group says Orleans sheriff has pledged not to jail people accused of violating immigration law
Since 2013, Sheriff Marlin Gusman has refused to honor most requests by federal agents to detain illegal immigrants.
National labor board rules that two charter schools in New Orleans can be unionized
International High School and Lusher Charter School argued labor-relations law didn’t apply to them.
