Drew Costley (Verite News)

A federal judge in Baton Rouge is set to hear oral arguments next week in a challenge to a new state law that makes it a criminal offense to knowingly or intentionally come within 25 feet of a working police officer after being ordered or asked to step back.

After months of uncertainty about its future, popular youth and farming program Grow Dat Youth Farm will be allowed to remain at the City Park site it has occupied since 2012.

Dawn Richard’s family lost everything in Hurricane Katrina. More than two decades later, her parents are still plagued by environmental woes.

Leaders of the City Park Conservancy plan to put a road through the beloved youth farm. The community has other ideas for how the park should be redeveloped.

Supporters spoke against City Park leadership's proposal to build a promenade that would bisect the land where Grow Dat currently operates.

As City Park develops a new master plan, Grow Dat Farm, a popular farm and youth program, could see a road built through its current site raising questions about its future.

Members of the Krewe of Zulu flung cloth bags from their floats on Mardi Gras in protest of the massive Formosa Plastics complex planned in St. James Parish.

A group of environmental and climate justice organizations from New Orleans and Houston will give grants to other nonprofits that are trying to clean up their communities and reduce the use of greenhouse gases.