The Public Service Commission selects Aptim Environmental and Infrastructure to run its new statewide energy efficiency program. Commissioner Davante Lewis says Louisiana will set the example through this move.
Not everyone is on board with the model. Commissioner Eric Skrmetta says it will significantly raise the budget and, in turn, will raise people’s utility rates.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill clarifies some points of a new law concerning a pair of abortion-inducing medications. As of October 1st, mifeprestone and misoprostol will be classified as Schedule Four controlled substances. Murrill says that will not prevent doctors from prescribing them, and they have nothing to worry about in doing so.
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Other Schedule Four controlled substances in Louisiana include Valium, Xanax and Ambien.
Researchers at the Memphis Zoo breed the Louisiana Pine Snake with artificial insemination for the first time. Sean Richardson has the story.
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A Louisiana Army National Guard soldier died while on a training mission. The National Guard says 32-year-old Mitchell Benham of Folsom was in Title 32 status conducting inactive duty training at Fort Johnson on Sunday when he died. The incident is under investigation.
If you live in the coastal zone, you have today and tomorrow to register for the Fortify Homes grant program. Under a new lottery system, 300 people will be selected.