"Alice saved my life," neighbors say. In 2007, Alice Craft-Kerney helped to launch a post-Katrina clinic that was invaluable ...

Her family house has framed her world. With its doorway, marked with penciled hash marks to show her height over the years, ...

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 ...

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.

The Lens spent January talking to Lower 9th Ward residents to tell their stories, narratives a Super Bowl committee wanted to ...

OPSB had sued because the city was skimming a portion off of the top of its OPSB tax payments; district officials agreed to ...

After Katrina, environmentalists built an overlook on Bayou Bienvenue to give the community access to the wetlands, which had been devastated by salt water from a now-closed canal called MR-GO. Recent ...

St. John the Baptist Parish did not violate either the First Amendment or the Louisiana Open Meetings Law, jurors in the U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana concluded after hearing evidence from both ...

This week on Behind The Lens, Super Bowl LIX is fast approaching and New Orleans will host tens of thousands for the game, and hundreds of millions are expected to watch on TV. With so much attention ...

Recently, when the Louisiana Department of Education issued its annual school letter grades, my school received an F. I founded the school, Noble Minds, in 2017. Now, I know what you’re thinking.

On Monday, a judge will hear Joy Banner’s contention that St. John the Baptist Parish Council Chairman Michael Wright restricted her right to voice her opinion. The U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana ...