Ja’Morius Mitchell, 18, was reported missing near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later found dead in a burning sugar cane field, deputies said. Screengrab from the Plaquemine Police Department's Facebook ...

The series by The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica on sugar cane burning and the health problems Glades residents are suffering was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, journalism’s most prestigious award ...

Since October 1, Glades residents have once again been smothered in the smoke and ash that will plague us through the entirety of the six-to-eight-month sugar cane pre-harvest burn season. For ...

The burning of sugar cane fields in West Baton Rouge Parish started sending ashes into the air and across the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge this week, a phenomenon seen several times since the fall ...