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NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans clerk of court staff stood ankle-deep in a massive landfill, digging through mounds of trash, to ...

These were the first days of uncertainty. We had just moved back home. It had been six weeks since escaping the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Now all was quiet, but ...

New Orleans — Louisiana's coast is under threat as a quarter of the state's wetlands, an area about the size of Delaware, ...

In just one week, Louisiana writer Jason Berry announced the fruition of a 20-year documentary project on jazz funerals and ...

Louisiana is the No. 1 commercial oyster producer in the United States. Twenty years after Katrina, oyster farmers say they ...

While Stevenson’s kindergarten students won’t start for a few more days, her dedication to education hasn’t skipped a beat.

When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, ...

In Africa's most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation's crumbling power grid cannot rely on it. And the situation isn't ...

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.