Organizations that participated in the event included Hands to Heart, the American Red Cross of Louisiana, the Louisiana ...

Louisiana Group Gets $4.5M to Fight Water Pollution and Help Communities The focus of NEAN’s work will be harmful “forever chemicals” like PFAS and PCBs. These chemicals are found in water, food, and ...

A Hyundai sign stands as a symbol of the company’s $6 billion investment in a hydrogen-powered steel mill in Ascension Parish, a project set to position Louisiana as a national leader in clean energy ...

Speaker Mike Johnson Faces Backlash as Louisiana Voters Protest Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and SNAP Cuts Major Louisiana health systems—including Ochsner Health and LSU Health—warn that ...

Banks Denounces Community Center Audit as Retaliatory, Politically Driven Banks, who left office in early 2024, says the city’s delay in conducting the audit deprived her of the opportunity to respond ...

Louisiana Sued Over Law Silencing “Cancer Alley” Communities Fighting for Clean Air Black communities in Louisiana’s infamous “Cancer Alley” are being stripped of their right to document the toxins ...

East Baton Rouge Head Start Program Faces Permanent Closure Without Federal Grant The program, which currently serves more than 600 children across multiple sites, is fully dependent on federal grant ...

NEAN Launches Urgent Baton Rouge Campaign to Aid Displaced Workers, Combat Environmental Threats NEAN is fighting pollution and unemployment in Black communities—restoring work, health, and hope.

Beatty Blasts GOP Budget as 'Billionaire Bankroll Bill,' Proposes Amendment to Block Tax Cuts if Safety Net Programs Are Cut Beatty’s amendment—No. 280—would prohibit any tax reductions for the top ...

Harvard Pushes Back with Precision: University Corrects and Challenges Education Department's Threat Following a grammatically flawed federal threat to cut funding, Harvard responds with legal action ...

Lawmakers Push to Reshape BREC Governance, Spark Debate Over Local Control in East Baton Rouge The Louisiana House recently approved House Bill 86 and House Bill 649, both aimed at restructuring how ...

Target Sees 11th Week of Declining Foot Traffic After Pullback on DEI Initiatives According to new data from analytics firm Placer.ai, visits to Target stores fell 4.7% year-over-year for the week ...