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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.

Behind the scenes of Super Bowl shelter planning

Emails show that state officials considered creating a shelter in a barge moored in Industrial Canal — and that prominent local developers knew about the shelter long before some city officials.
by Nick Chrastil February 12, 2025 Updated March 5, 2026

Council condemns mayor’s threat to scuttle $20 million settlement with Orleans Parish School Board

OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to settle last year, when the School Board realized it was facing a $36 million deficit.
by Marta Jewson February 3, 2025 Updated February 12, 2025

Embracing Katrina narratives

After an insinuation made by a Super Bowl planning committee, reporters from The Lens asked Lower 9 residents what Super Bowl visitors should see, plotted the points on a map, and documented the Katrina narratives that go with each landmark.
by Lens staff February 1, 2025 Updated March 5, 2026

St. John the Baptist Parish cleared in First Amendment lawsuit

A jury found that the defendants didn’t violate Joy Banner’s right to free speech or the Louisiana Open Meetings Law. But testimony revealed a hatred the Parish President harbors against the co-founders of The Descendants Project.
by Delaney Dryfoos January 29, 2025 Updated January 29, 2025

Losing a community pillar

by Lolis Eric Elie January 28, 2025 Updated December 28, 2025

Trial begins in First Amendment suit against St. John the Baptist Parish

Joy Banner of The Descendants Project brought the lawsuit after the Parish Council chairman threatened her with prosecution and imprisonment for speaking during the public comment period of a 2023 meeting.
by Delaney Dryfoos January 27, 2025 Updated January 27, 2025

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 March 5, 2026

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

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