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During a visit to Venture Global’s liquified natural gas plant in Port Sulphur, Gov. Jeff Landry and two members of President ...

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

As Louisiana restarts executions, stories about the state’s death penalty — from condemned men, victims, families, and those ...

All over south Louisiana, and indeed across the country, people honor their dead. At historical sites, battlefields, military cemeteries and other hallowed grounds, Americans pay respects to those who ...

Our reporters stayed on their beats, covering how Carnival affects the way New Orleans works - and doesn't work.

Early voting for this crucial election starts on Saturday. The four constitutional amendments on the March 29 ballot are ...

Entergy, the Louisiana utility, has dragged its feet on renewables. Now, it seems that a proposed Meta data center in ...

THIS IS PART OF “OPERATING CAPITAL,” AN ONGOING LENS DISCUSSION ABOUT LOUISIANA’S RESUMPTION OF EXECUTIONS. Fifteen years ago, Burl Cain, then-Warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, ...

Another statute prohibits the illegal carrying of a firearm “used in the commission of a crime of violence” within 1,000 feet ...

Paula Cooks left work at the University Medical Center and biked to St. Charles to see her family on the parade route, because they gather at the same spot, every year. (Mizani Ball/ The Lens) THIS ...