The four major gubernatorial candidates will appear in a statewide televised debate from Louisiana Tech’s campus beginning at 6PM. Political Analyst Clancy Dubos says Republican David Vitter will likely be a target…

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In a Raycom Media poll of 600 registered voters, Vitter and Democrat John Bel Edwards are polling above 21-percent, while Republicans Jay Dardenne and Scott Angelle are in the single digits.

Even though it’s mid-October it will feel like summer again today as high temperatures will be in the 90s across much of Louisiana. Brandi Hughes, with the National Weather Service, says dry conditions are helping to produce summer like weather…

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Shreveport broke a 134 year-old record when temps reached the mid-90s yesterday.

According to the 2016-17 Louisiana Economic Outlook report, the state’s economy will continue to feel the effects of low oil prices, but industrial booms in certain areas will create major job growth. Economist and report co-author Dr. Loren Scott says areas in the oil patch around Houma and the Acadiana region will continue to struggle…

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The forecast projects, overall, Louisiana will add 15,400 jobs in 2016.

A new species of rodent was discovered by the LSU Mammal Curator while surveying in Indonesia. Jake Esselstyn says this species, called the Hog-nosed rat, has a large pink nose, extremely large ears and long legs…

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He says his team trapped the rat while traveling up a mountain on the island of Sulawesi.