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 ...

A screening of the Emmy-nominated film "Bittersweet Muck" about sugarcane burning in the Glades will be shown May 31 at the Mandel Library. The film, produced by NBC 6 investigative reporter Sasha ...

Each year, large swaths of Louisiana are engulfed in toxic smoke from post-harvest sugar cane burning. Communities suffer in silence while state leadership looks the other way. Gov. Jeff Landry’s ...

The practice of cutting off the tough outer husks of sugar cane stalks as an alternative to burning them off in pre-harvest fires has been adopted almost everywhere the crop is grown. Known as "green ...

(Gene McAvoy comments in response to the letter to the editor, "Leadership needed on cane burning," by Deirdre Ruffino, which appeared Nov. 13. Ruffino's letter reacted to a series of investigative ...

We have all seen it. That enormous thick cloud looming over the sugar cane fields. It fills the lush beautiful land with a disturbing haze as it hovers over our homes and hearts. That toxic cloud is ...