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Public schools observe the week, timed to national Constitution Day on Sept. 17, by teaching students about Americans' freedoms and where they come from.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest data obtained by the Deportation Data Project shows that the New Orleans ICE office's area of responsibility has the second-highest arrest rate in the country relative to its noncitizen immigrant population.

Clint Cointment says his administration isn't hiding any public records about the Hyundai Steel deal, despite denying requests from residents, advocacy groups, the courts and the Gulf States Newsroom.

Louisiana Delta Community College created new four-week programs in response to Meta’s data center in Richland Parish and is helping locals land jobs.

For many indigenous students in the Gulf South, pursuing higher education at a tribal college or university comes with significant barriers.

Residents who live near where SpaceX’s rockets will be launched say they were kept in the dark about the project.

A group of Black mothers in the Gulf South is supporting each other through their shared grief and fight for justice.

Sheriffs receive 20% of Louisiana’s opioid settlement money but are not required to report how they spend those dollars. Records reveal how 43 offices are spending their share.

Chris Dier, a history teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School, first sued the state over the law in 2024, before it took effect.

Tanner Riley has spent years searching for his grandfather's NOPD service records. What he found revealed something deeper about memory, history and the people willing to preserve both.