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A research duel heats up, amid high-stakes decision on LNG exports

As groups try to influence a federal decision, Louisiana fishers squeezed by current LNG exports call for an end to expansion.
by Sara Sneath June 12, 2024 Updated August 9, 2024

A concussion and a missing dreadlock

After a teacher held him by his hair, a 13-year-old child was punched by a classmate and suffered a concussion. The teacher had been arrested for a similar classroom incident nine years ago in another parish.
by Katy Reckdahl June 10, 2024 Updated June 19, 2024

Federal judge: ‘I don’t think robbers would ask for help’

by La'Shance Perry June 7, 2024 Updated June 10, 2024

Behind The Lens episode 239: ‘It’s unconscionable’

Nick Chrastil on an eye-popping State Police contract The Lens had to sue to obtain. It's been one year since JPSO shot and killed Calvin Cains III and his family is suing for body camera footage. And a redesign of City Park could disrupt Grow Dat Youth Farm.
by Carolyne Heldman June 7, 2024 Updated June 7, 2024
An observer stands on the less-developed West Bank of the Mississippi River and watches the Marathon Refinery blaze across the river.

How federal tax dollars meant to fight climate change could end up boosting Louisiana’s fossil fuel production

The more carbon dioxide the factories produce and capture, the more federal money the projects can receive.
by Ned Randolph June 6, 2024 Updated June 17, 2024

‘Show us the video’

by Katy Reckdahl June 3, 2024 Updated June 11, 2024

Stories behind the soil: Le Petit Jardin de Belle

A new road threatens to cut through the “safe haven” for youth created through the Grow Dat Youth Farm, in what critics see as an unnecessary focus on motor vehicles.
by Delaney Dryfoos June 3, 2024 Updated June 3, 2024

Louisiana paying D.C. attorneys $1,000 an hour to defend against probe into state police 

Last year, the firm began raking in big money for legal services related to a DOJ investigation into patterns of misconduct by the Louisiana State Police.
by Nick Chrastil May 31, 2024 Updated May 31, 2024

We are not helpless in the face of climate change.

If we bring the right people to the table and think outside the box, we can reduce insurance rates, bring down heat levels within our city, put our youth to work, have strong roofs, dry streets, cooler neighborhoods and be a national leader in climate adaptation.
by Arthur Hunter Jr. May 28, 2024 Updated June 17, 2024

Behind The Lens episode 238: ‘Juvenile Jails’

Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl on a bill that would provide funding to build new local juvenile-detention faciilites. Marta Jewson and La'Shance Perry on the Living School's final days as it prepares to close its doors.
by Carolyne Heldman May 24, 2024 Updated May 24, 2024

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