The precipitous loss of residents that Louisiana has seen over the last three years has been spread across nearly every parish, with urban and rural areas alike seeing large decreases, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau estimate of local population changes that offers another stark sign of the challenge facing state leaders.
Jeff Adelson
Louisiana’s three abortion clinics shut their doors abruptly a year and a half ago after legal battles challenging the state's abortion ban came to an end, appointments still on the books.
A months-long cooldown in shooting and deadly violence has left New Orleans poised to end the year with just over 190 murders — a dramatic 25% decrease from last year's historic high, when unrelenting bloodshed re-established the Crescent City as a murder capital amid a commensurate national surge in killing.
Louisiana’s population continued its decline for the third consecutive year, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau that suggest Louisiana is shrinking at a faster clip than nearly any other state.
Louisiana may be the state most at risk from climate change, and the year 2050 could prove to be an inflection point as seas rise and more land is lost. Explore our interactive data to see projected land loss, damage and flood depths both statewide and by parish.
Louisiana is in the grips of an infant mortality crisis. Babies born here are far more likely to die before their first birthday than those in other states.
MONROE — With each sweep of the ultrasound wand across Amber Davis’s protruding belly, her diagnosis grew more dire.
Louisiana is threatened by an increasing number of severe storms and is also home to a vast number of industrial sites housing toxic chemicals.
For days after Hurricane Ida, Chandra Straw’s New Orleans neighborhood was choked by waves of thick, black smoke. She stopped going outside, preferring the dark and stifling heat of her home, one of thousands that lost power after the 2021 storm. She shut the windows and stuffed blankets under the doors, but the fumes crept in, eventually forcing her to do what Ida’s winds and torrential rains hadn’t.