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New Orleans Public Radio coastal reporter Tegan Wendland and I spent months scouring documents and interviewing sources for a five-part investigative series that uncovered decades of overuse, unregulated pumping by industries and agriculture, and scant oversight or action from legislative committees in rural Louisiana. Known For Its Floods, Louisiana Is Running Dangerously Short of Groundwater Louisiana is known for its losing battle against rising seas and increasingly frequ

I had the exciting opportunity to put my video editing skills to task working alongside a team of features videographers at The Weather...

TOOLEVILLE, Calif. — An ongoing struggle between two communities less than a mile apart in one of the nation’s key farming regions is a microcosm that illustrates the challenges California faces as it tries to deliver clean, affordable drinking water to more than 1 million residents without access to what the state has called a “basic human right.” Nestled among orange groves in the Central Valley, the community of Tooleville has just 391 residents. Hardly a town or a village

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump has pushed for stricter immigration enforcement since he came into office. It was a key focus of his campaign. In his first State of the Union address, President Trump spent more than 10 minutes of the address talking about immigration from the U.S-Mexico border wall to the need for more border officers and stricter enforcement. “It is time to reform these outdated immigration rules, and finally bring our immigration system into th

Empathy, fairness and ethics are among the values that shape Americans’ measure of trust in public officials, and that trust, according to a new Pew Research Center report, continues to decline. The study found that Americans share nuanced views on which trust-building factors are important for which institutions, meaning the keys to winning them over — at the ballot box or elsewhere — may not be easy. “Trust is a variegated phenomenon; it’s not sort of this black-and-white,