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This category showcases the lead coverage readers need to know, offering context, clarity, and insight into issues shaping New Orleans and beyond.

‘Cajun Coral’ could reshape former oil and gas platforms along the Gulf Coast

A decommissioned oil rig site off Grand Isle offers a new shallow-water template for the Louisiana Rigs-to-Reef programs. Where rigs once stood, the 3D-printed concrete could create bustling coastal reefs.
by Delaney Dryfoos November 15, 2024 Updated November 15, 2024

‘Catastrophic’: Superintendent resigns amid district’s $36 million gaffe

School leaders worried that the budget gap may grow further, as officials tally final numbers.
by Marta Jewson November 14, 2024 Updated November 15, 2024

Louisiana could be out billions, if controversial coastal-restoration stalls

The feds threaten to withhold $2.2 billion from the massive effort to save and restore the state’s diminishing coastline if leaders don’t act soon.
by Terry L. Jones for Floodlight November 11, 2024 Updated November 10, 2024

Grain Terminal in the Lower 9: ‘It’s not going to be good for us.’

The Port of New Orleans plans to “revitalize” the Alabo Street Wharf into a terminal for organic grain. Neighbors in Holy Cross are concerned about grain dust, pests, rodents and a steady line of railcars passing right outside their doors.
by Delaney Dryfoos, The Lens, and Eva Tesfaye, WWNO November 1, 2024 Updated November 14, 2024

Louisiana AG sues feds to undo longstanding disability protections

Because of objections to a federal rule protecting gender dysphoria, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a multi-state lawsuit seeking to invalidate Section 504, the disability law best known for providing support for public school students.
by Marta Jewson October 28, 2024 Updated December 28, 2025

Louisiana may be forced to change how it allots welfare money

A proposed Biden-administration regulation change could bar the state from using federal dollars for child-protective investigations, controversial crisis pregnancy centers, and reduce the amount to pre-K.
by Nick Chrastil October 22, 2024 Updated November 14, 2024

Lead pipes, another New Orleans legacy

As the federal government announces a rule to eliminate all lead pipes within the next decade, tests by the Water Collaborative found lead within drinking water at 88% of New Orleans homes tested.
by Delaney Dryfoos October 12, 2024 Updated November 14, 2024

Can Tulane shed its fossil fuel investments? 

To convince Tulane University to divest from fossil fuels, students say, they must fight geography, history, and the school's academic partnerships with industry.
by Jay Marcano October 10, 2024 Updated October 10, 2024

Pregnant in Louisiana Now, After Roe Fell

She is now past her first trimester and doing well. But after two miscarriages, she is aware that a new Louisiana law blocks crucial care for her, if – ‘god forbid’ – something goes wrong.
by As told to Marta Jewson October 9, 2024 Updated October 9, 2024

The majority-Black districts that became Cancer Alley

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 Black neighborhoods.
by Delaney Dryfoos October 6, 2024 Updated April 14, 2025

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