It’s election day throughout Louisiana with only one statewide race.

Although ballots in different areas have some local races and regional ballot initiatives, all ballots offer voters a choice for the Secretary of State.

Democrat Gwen Collins-Greenup is challenging the GOP’s Kyle Ardoin for the post.

Pollster John Couvillion says the candidates’ names was not very well known across the state, so voters’ party affiliation could be a factor.

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It’s been a long road for 82 year old Blues guitar legend Buddy Guy. But now there will be an actual road named in his honor.

The seven time Grammy award winning artist returns to his hometown of Lettsworth in Point Coupee parish today to have a section of highway 418 re-named the “Buddy Guy Way.”

Guy says he never believed his love of blues music would take him very far.

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Louisiana’s Democratic Party responds to some of the claims Congressman Ralph Abraham made against Governor John Bel Edwards. Kevin Barnhart has more.

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“Everyone loves a comeback,” is a commonly heard phrase. But a half century ago, the situation looked bleak for the official state bird of Louisiana, which was in danger of going extinct.

Among the reasons cited was the widespread use of DDT to control pests.

The pesticide that was linked to weakening bird egg shells that greatly reduced bird population including the brown pelican.

But in 1968, efforts to reintroduce the brown pelican into the wild has brought the water fowl back from the brink.

Fifty years later, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries considers the comeback of the brown pelican population to be a success.

LDWF has a link on its website to a video telling the story of the state bird’s return.