Cantrell admin opposes proposal calling for NOPD to submit raw data on crime, staffing and surveillance usage.
‘Dead zone’ smaller than expected, but bigger than desired
Though significantly smaller than expected, this year’s dead zone still far exceeds the long-term goal.
Sole OPSB interim applicant Donaldo Batiste appointed to District 4 seat
Batiste is the second interim board member appointed this year, after two resigned mid-term.
Rep. Troy Carter on the fate of New Orleans’ Claiborne Expressway
A talk with the congressman about the future of that troubled urban highway.
How Minnesota’s little, polluted Crow River clouds the Mississippi
The Crow runs into the Mississippi, bringing a share of the pollution driving the large and growing oxygen-depleted ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana to receive 7,200 more doses of monkeypox vaccine in the coming weeks
On Friday, Louisiana had confirmed 38 cases of monkeypox, 29 of which are in New Orleans or the parishes that immediately surround it.
Behind The Lens episode 175: ‘The evidence was not there’
A federal jury acquits Orleans Parish DA Jason Williams on 10 counts of tax fraud. And the New Orleans City Council and Entergy agree to a moratorium on service suspensions.
New Orleans DA Jason Williams acquitted on all counts
His former law partner was found guilty of four tax charges in a separate case that was tried jointly.
Kennedy HS students’ lawyer seeks partial judgment in 2019 graduation scandal
The attorney, representing the classes of 2019 and 2020, seeks damages for emotional distress.
Could a federal funding program that helped clean up the Great Lakes work for the Mississippi River too?
Mississippi River watershed communities like Bay City, Wisconsin are feeling the effects of environmental degradation. Advocates hope a proposed federal funding program, based on a successful initiative in the Great Lakes, could change this.