Governor John Bel Edwards is asking Louisiana residents to not let their guard down on COVID mitigation efforts just because it’s a holiday. Edwards says the state has seen ground lost after other holidays…
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The state’s Phase Two declaration expires Friday, a Phase Three decision is expected soon.
State Treasurer John Schroder says they’re relaxing some application rules for the Main Street Recovery Program with the aim of getting more businesses to sign up for relief grants worth up to 15,000 dollars. Schroder says for the first 21 days of the program only businesses who didn’t get previous federal pandemic aid could apply with a “quick-relief” option. That’s not the case anymore.
New tech to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread is being tested on the helmets of LSU football players. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The Calcasieu Parish communities of Toomey and Stark are the first two in the parish to get the lights back on just over a week after Hurricane Laura devastated the region’s electrical infrastructure. Still according to the Public Service Commission 97 percent of all customers in the parish don’t have power, and for most it could be another two weeks before they do. Elsewhere in the state nearly all of central Louisiana now has power restored.