Gov. Jeff Landry said his health department will find the money to cover $147 million in benefits next month for the elderly, disabled and children.

Fossil fuel companies rebrand as "energy" producers. Also construction of a new LNG terminal is halted by a federal judge. [.

Dominque Jones-Johnson reveals how children of incarcerated parents in Louisiana suffer under a broken justice system—and why real reform can’t wait.

Expansions at five petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana could add the equivalent of more than 1 million cars’ worth of pollution, advocates say.

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. Mayors agreed to it, opposed it, ...

For $5 million dollars, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company help choose which faculty research projects move forward. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research ...

Gus Bennett is The Lens’ staff photographer and a contributing writer covering criminal justice. Bennett brings more than 40 years of experience as a celebrated portrait and conceptual street ...

In 2000, someone shot a young man in a Slidell club. Investigators quickly zeroed in on McKinley Phipps Jr., a rising star in New Orleans’ rap scene. He was convicted of manslaughter. But witnesses ...

NEW ORLEANS ― Invariably, someone brings up the anatomically-shaped balloons. About a year ago, a bachelorette party from Texas rented a house through Airbnb on Ursulines Avenue in Treme, a ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — These days, Henry Montgomery, 69, is known as the man of few words who works in a gym at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Josh Carter, 70, worked next to Montgomery for ...