This week on Behind The Lens, in a unanimous vote on a controversial issue, the New Orleans City Council’s Utilities Committee has allowed local energy company Entergy New Orleans to sell its natural ...

A newly passed federal law emphasizes flood control along the Mississippi River—work that advocates believe is critical as the river basin sees more frequent and severe extreme weather events due to ...

Jo and Joy Banner, co-founders of The Descendants Project, announced the nonprofit’s acquisition of the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, La. The plantation, site of the largest slave revolt in American ...

On Monday afternoon, after traveling seven miles from a camp not far from the Superdome, Joe Ferrara finally neared the governor's new Transition Center. He planned to camp outside until it opened on ...

Ever since the 9/11 terrorist attacks that took down the World Trade towers in New York, cities been more aware that these tragedies can happen anywhere. In particular, the city of New Orleans has ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

“We have much work to do,” Hunter writes, “to ensure that an anti-terrorist component is part of the planning process for every special event that attracts thousands – Mardi Gras, festivals and ...

“Nova,” by Jacob Kainen, 1977, watercolor and pastel with ink marker and pen and black ink on wove paper. (Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) ...

“I am a member of the Point Lookout burial crew,” say Lawson Strickland. “We are volunteer trusty inmates who bury inmates here at Angola's Point Lookout cemetery when they are unclaimed by their ...

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

The Lens aims to engage and empower the residents of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. We provide the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance.

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.