The Army Corps of Engineers has begun opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway in St. Charles Parish to reduce the flooding risk down the Mississippi river. Cranes are pulling wooden planks, or needles out of bays, diverting river water into Lake Ponchatrain. Army Corps of Engineers Colonel Michael Clancy…
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Clancy says the Mississippi is high, but there are no plans to open the Morganza Spillway in Pointe Coupee Parish.

Target and Walmart workers will see more money in their paycheck. Walmart Associates in Louisiana will receive 13.7 million dollars in bonuses today, while Target is raising its minimum hourly wage to 12-dollars this spring and 15-dollars by the end of 2020. UNO Business Professor Mark Rosa says this is the effect of the recent federal tax overhaul…
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A pro life documentary, I Lived on Parker Avenue will begin streaming online tonight focusing on a Metarire man and his first in person meeting with his birth mom. Matt Doyle has the story.
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Clint Durrett took time to thank a State Trooper on social media for mailing his wallet to him after he lost it on Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras. State Trooper John Jett provided Durrett with a letter telling him he found the wallet and decided to mail it to him at his own expense after learning the NOPD 8th district didn’t have a lost and found.