A bill to prevent the removal of confederate monuments did not get out of a House committee today. Shreveport Representative Sam Jenkins opposes the bill because he says this proposal would not allow local governments to decide what they want to do with their own property.
The 7-7 vote was not enough for the bill to pass.
The forecast team at Colorado State University calls for the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane season to be near-average. Research scientist Phil Klotzbach, says the El Nino is dissipating which is why they are predicting a more active season than in 2015, but northern Atlantic Ocean temperatures are still cooler than average…:
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The first test burn of explosives is successful at Camp Minden in Webster Parish. Emelie Gunn has more…
Another baby whooping crane has joined the family of endangered birds in Louisiana, as two eggs have hatched in Jefferson Davis Parish this week. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist, Sara Zimorski, leads the whooping crane project that has been working since 2011 to reestablish the birds in Louisiana. Zimorski says this the first whooping crane hatching in Louisiana in 77 years.