1:30 LRN Newscast

With less than a week to go before Election Day, supporters of Julia Letlow and Jamie Davis are pulling out the stops in getting the word out about their choice for U.S. Senate. Andrew Greenstein reports.

Cut 2 (31) “…I’m Andrew Greenstein.”

According to the Baton Rouge Business Report, Hyundai has secured an air permit for its five-point-eight billion dollar Ascension Parish steel mill. This will allow the South Korean company to begin construction on the steel manufacturing facility in Donaldsonville. It will employ 13-hundred workers with a plan to begin commercial production in early 2029.

 

Early voting for the November 3rd election is over, with nearly 521,000 voters casting ballots. According to the Secretary of State’s Office, registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans among early voters by nearly 16,000. Also added to the mix are almost 93-thousand no-party voters. LSU political science professor Robert Hogan says no party voters tend to vote Republican in Louisiana

Cut 4 (08) “…are Republican voters.”

October comes to an end on Saturday and the 2026 hurricane season will also unofficially come to an end. So says LSU Health Climatologist Barry Keim who says in the 175 years of hurricane record keeping, a named storm has never made landfall in Louisiana in November…

Cut 7 (09) “…very, very low.”