Toxic lead is common in water across New Orleans, according to previously unpublished city data obtained by Verite News.

Seafood workers say that the Coast Guard, in a departure from the norm, has conducted about seven sweeps since early November ...

Sexual abuse is not an event that ends when headlines fade. It is an experience that alters the nervous system, reshapes a ...

The Trump administration has faced a number of high-profile lawsuits over the ban on LGBTQ+ pride expression and refusal to ...

President Donald Trump has approved Gov. Jeff Landry’s request for more federal funding to help with recovery from a severe ...

For close to two decades, Mica has reported on immigration policy and other subjects from across the U.S. and Latin America.

This week, ProPublica published a story I wrote based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas ...

Louisiana clerks of court want to limit a law that allows hundreds of elected officials and their families to remove their personal information from online records, including court and mortgage ...

There are big differences from state to state and region to region. Some places have seen mammoth price increases that ...

A federal appellate court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law that requires all public schools to have displays of the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

Norman C. Francis, the stalwart city leader in civil rights, business and education who led Xavier University for nearly half a century, ...

LSU scientists developed an eco-friendly foam from a fatty acid found in castor oil that can remove a wide variety of microplastics from water.