With Louisiana’s gubernatorial election now less than 11 months away, candidates will soon start throwing their names into the ring. Andrew Greenstein reports.

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Court records show University of Louisiana System President Rick Gallot owes 350-thousand dollars in federal income taxes. Gallot is putting the blame on a former accountant that never filed federal income tax return for tax year 2019. Gallot also disputes what the IRS says he owes. Gallot has been president of the UL System since 2024. The system oversees eight schools.

Louisiana is receiving three million dollars from the USDA that will be used to hire technicians and deploy traps to trick the pigs into being captured. That’s according to Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, who says the funds will be used in 27 parishes in the Red River and Mississippi River Basins…

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Strain says there are 700 to 900-thousand feral pigs, many of them are causing damage to crop fields, costing farmers around 100-million dollars every year.

The US Drought monitor this week shows that nearly one-fifth of the state is suffering from exceptional drought conditions. North-central Louisiana, west of Alexandria and a portion of southwest Louisiana are all considered in exceptional drought. LSU Climatologist Jay Grymes says there is a chance we’ll see rain on Sunday and Monday…

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Heading out to a high school game tonight? It will get chilly, low temperatures for a majority of the state will be in the 30s on Saturday.