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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.

Pairing of Arctic air and moisture from the Gulf created record-breaking snowfall

The celebrated New Orleans snowfall is twice what Anchorage has recorded all winter long. Meteorologists attributed it to a perfect dance between weather systems.
by Delaney Dryfoos January 23, 2025 Updated January 30, 2025

New Orleans Health Department launches a misoprostol map

To assist physicians and patients, the NOHD announces the launch of a map of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, which pinpoints pharmacies that are stocked with the controlled substance misoprostol.
by La'Shance Perry January 16, 2025 Updated January 16, 2025

The shelter that the Super Bowl made

The leader of the governor’s temporary shelter says they are fully staffed and genuinely ready to move people into permanent housing. But it is several miles from the Superdome and is seen by critics as a way to warehouse homeless people away from Super Bowl crowds.
by Nick Chrastil and Katy Reckdahl January 15, 2025 Updated December 28, 2025

Getting Greenfield to pay what it promised

The Descendants Project sues, contending that public officials had no right to forgive Greenfield’s grain-elevator-project debts.
by Delaney Dryfoos January 13, 2025 Updated January 14, 2025

Kaleidoscope Reprise

This poem received second prize for poetry in the 2024 PEN Prison Writing Awards.
by John Corley January 2, 2025 Updated December 30, 2024

Waiting.

This story was awarded the top PEN Prison Writing Award for fiction.
by Lawson Strickland December 26, 2024 Updated December 27, 2024

Top debate student couldn’t sway School Board to keep his school open

Delores Taylor Arthur School for Young Men closed Friday, and its students are now frantically trying to find spots to finish out the school year. Parents say that the school’s mid-year closing was a tragedy that could have been foreseen – and prevented.
by Marta Jewson December 21, 2024 Updated December 21, 2024

Alabo Wharf deal gets slippery

In the Holy Cross Neighborhood, residents obtain Port emails showing that a modest grain terminal at the Alabo Wharf includes more phases—and now includes crude sunflower oil, shipped in from Turkey.
by Delaney Dryfoos December 20, 2024 Updated December 20, 2024

Fighting Act 246 in court

As advocates and lawyers file suit against the state, asking a judge to bar the reclassification of drugs used for medication abortion, women seeking IUDs and needing prenatal care say that they are also feeling the effects of the new law.
by La'Shance Perry December 18, 2024 Updated December 20, 2024

City Council committee allows Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural gas system

Though Councilmembers were swayed by job creation, critics said that the jobs pale in comparison to the rate increases and environmental effects that Orleans residents will now shoulder.
by Delaney Dryfoos December 17, 2024 Updated December 20, 2024

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