Safura Syed (Verite News)

New Orleans school district wants a developer to take over the Valena C. Jones Elementary building. A legal analysis by the New Orleans Redevelopment Authority found that an act of donation for the property in 1928 requires part of it to be used for education.

Air Products & Chemicals has proposed to build the world’s largest carbon storage project in southeastern Louisiana, but residents worry about health and environmental consequences.

The board was scheduled to vote on one of three options, including ceasing operations at the Leah Chase School at the end of the school year.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to federal health care spending, passed last month as part of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” could mean that, over the next 10 years, millions more Americans will be left without health insurance of any kind.

The Louisiana Public Service Commission and Trump administration both made decisions in April that could mean more expensive energy bills for residents.

The New Orleans City Council approved an ordinance on Thursday (May 8) that will protect sex workers from arrest and prosecution for prostitution when they have reported crimes committed against them while working.

The ordinance would provide sex workers immunity from arrest when seeking help from local law enforcement officers. But State Police troopers in the city don’t have to follow it.

Nurses cited slow negotiations as the reason for their third strike in seven months.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the interest of the United States.”

The most recent park planning meeting proposed reviving old structures and expanding trails.