The Current

This story was first reported by Verite News, a member of the Deep South Today network, and republished with permission.

By: Cheree Franco

A group of commercial fishers, fishing guides and seafood processors in southwest Louisiana is suing liquefied natural gas comp...

South Louisiana, or its political class at least, was flying high two weeks ago after SpaceX announced it would bring $100 billion in investment to a largely rural parish and create thousands of jobs to support the spac...

Kevin Hebert, standing outside his house, ignores his phone as it begins to ring for the tenth time that day. “It’s some solicitors,” he explains. “The minute you start questioning them, they’ll hang up.”

Hebert receives dozens of these calls every day, from scammers pretending to represent the federal government. But support from the actual government is slow to c...

Earlier this year, Lake Charles resident Terrell Deshotel submitted a public records request to the city of Lake Charles, seeking an aggregate count of distracted driving citations issued over the last five years for a research project.

The city’s response caught him by surprise. Lake Charles City Attorney Russell Stutes refused to release records unless Deshotel p...

Robin Norwood and her family have been swimming at Riverside Swim Club, a neighborhood swim club, since their son, Nash, was three years old. Twenty years later they still wouldn’t swim anywhere else. Even with her membership at Red’s, she still chooses Riverside first.

“He’s comfortable here, you know, he knows where he can stand,” says Norwood of her son, who has...