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.
Within Trevon Cole's lifetime, Louisiana's vulnerability to climate change has become apparent, as hurricanes have become more frequent and severe. "But until recently, I didn’t link worse storms to ...
In April, after a new law mandated that 17-year-olds be treated as adults, some local jails struggled to keep youth separate from adults, as required by federal law. In East Baton Rouge, Sheriff Sid ...
Sophomore Yashawa Fluker, 16, who remembers falling asleep in his elementary-school classes. “I don’t want to think I was a hard-to-teach student,” he said. But in the end, many of his classes simply ...
On Tuesday, the state’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) officially began to reconnect the Mississippi River with the Maurepas Swamp, a degraded and submerged swamp forest directly ...